Category Archives: AWS

JetS3t supports CloudFront private distributions

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 … Continue reading

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AWS Management Console: Now with CloudFront

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.

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Real-world cloud computing

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 … Continue reading

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Big data + Little pipe? Try S3 Ingestion

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

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

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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