Monthly Archives: May 2009

Big data + Little pipe? Try S3 Ingestion

Posted on May 27, 2009 by James Murty

A major barrier to moving your data to an online storage location like Amazon’s S3 can be the time it takes to push large numbers of bytes through your upstream Internet connection. While your connection may be fast enough to … Continue reading →

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New EC2 Services: Monitor, Scale and Load Balance Your Instances

Posted on May 20, 2009 by James Murty

Amazon recently released three major new features for their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service — New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch. These beta services are immediately available to anyone with an EC2 account … Continue reading →

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JetS3t Update: 0.7.1

Posted on May 10, 2009 by James Murty

JetS3t (jet-set) version 0.7.1 is now available. This is the latest version of my open source Java S3 library and application suite. Visit the JetS3t web site to download the new version, run the updated online applications, or read the … Continue reading →

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AWS in Education

Posted on May 3, 2009 by James Murty

Do you use Amazon Web Services for research purposes at a university, or as part of a university course? If so, you should look into Amazon’s new AWS in Education initiative which provides AWS service credits to members of the … Continue reading →

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