Monthly Archives: April 2009

How to use JetS3t with Eucalyptus

Updated 2009-06-22: Added settings that limit JetS3t to a single HTTP connection at a time, to work around apparent thread-safety issues in Walrus. Eucalyptus is a relatively new but rapidly developing open-source system for running your own cloud computing clusters. … Continue reading

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Other AWS News: HIPAA Compliance, SimpleDB Batch Put

Other AWS news that I haven’t yet mentioned… HIPAA Compliance Amazon has announced a white paper: Creating HIPAA-Compliant Medical Data Applications with Amazon Web Services. My JetS3t Java library is mentioned in the blog post among the tools that allow … Continue reading

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SQS Update: Access permissions, visibility timeouts, and EU availability

Amazon’s SQS messaging service has been updated with some interesting new features, as announced in the AWS blog post Powerful New Amazon SQS Features. Access Permissions The original release of SQS allowed users to set access permissions for their message … Continue reading

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Article on Real-world Experiences with EC2

Grig Gheorghiu of the Agile Testing blog has a very good post about his experiences deploying large-scale applications on Amazon’s EC2 service: Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2. Lots of great tips here.

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Upgrading Eclipse: An exercise in frustration

I am keen to try out Amazon’s new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse which adds EC2 instance management and direct deployment into the Eclipse IDE. However, I have just wasted my afternoon trying to upgrade to a new version of Eclipse … Continue reading

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Amazon S3 turns 3, Users get a birthday discount

To celebrate the three year birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon has announced reduced pricing for uploads for the next three months. From April to June 2009, uploads into S3 will cost 3¢ per Gigabyte instead of 10¢. … Continue reading

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