There is a lot of S3 and JetS3t news tonight.
Versioning For All
To begin with, the new S3 beta versioning feature is now available in all regions. This means that you can retain past versions of all your S3 objects regardless of where your bucket is located.
The latest JetS3t code has full support for versioning that [...]
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Amazon is working on an interesting new feature for the S3 service: Object versioning.
Once you enable versioning for one of your S3 buckets, any time you change an object in that bucket a version of the prior object will be stored in addition to the latest one. You can then perform operations on prior object [...]
JetS3t 0.7.2
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, JetS3t on Jan 10th, 2010
As of a couple of weeks ago the latest version of JetS3t 0.7.2 has been available as a public release. In the pre-holiday rush I forgot to post a notification to my own blog.
This release includes some bug fixes, more sophisticated configuration options for the “filecomparer” component that manages file synchronizations, and supports the two [...]
Amazon has just announced a new private content feature for their CloudFront content distribution service.
This feature allows you to control access to S3 objects you distribute through CloudFront by making them available only through specific distributions, or by requiring the use of signed URLs that you generate and provide to privileged users.
As of this [...]
AWS Management Console: Now with CloudFront
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing on Jun 23rd, 2009
Amazon’s AWS Management Console now supports the company’s CloudFront service, a CDN-like extension for the Simple Storage Service (S3).
You can read about this new feature on the AWS Blog and watch an introductory video here.
Real-world cloud computing
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing on Jun 8th, 2009
An interesting post with some drawbacks of cloud computing and EC2, from those in the trenches: Real-world cloud computing.
There are some real gems here, such as:
[They all] used Amazon services, and most if not all of them seemed to use RightScale to manage them.
Cost: cloud is more expensive than real machines. Cloud is good for [...]