Monthly Archives: August 2008

Persistent Storage for EC2 with Elastic Block Store

Amazon has announced a major new feature for their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service: Elastic Block Store (EBS) persistent storage volumes. EBS provides for block level storage space that can be attached to your EC2 instances, but which exists separately … Continue reading

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Cheaper Micropayments with FPS

Earlier this month, Amazon changed the pricing structure for micropayment (aggregate) transactions performed with the Flexible Payments Service (FPS). FPS no longer charges a per-transaction fee for payments made from a prepaid or postpaid instrument. Fees are only changed when … Continue reading

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JetS3t Version 0.6.1 Released

I am pleased to announce the release of JetS3t version 0.6.1, the newest version of my open source Java S3 library and application suite. This release includes bug fixes, application improvements, and support for some of the newest features of … Continue reading

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