Contemplating the brave new present
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 Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Highlights include:
Support for copying, moving, and renaming S3 objects with the [...]
The latest version of Amazon’s SimpleDB service is available, and happily it now allows for sorting of query results. This highly-anticipated feature will make the service much more useful.
Sorting still suffers from some limitations: you can only sort by a single attribute, you cannot perform sorting in queries that contain union or not predicates, and [...]
Posted in AWS on Jul 21st, 2008
As I post this, Amazon’s S3 and SQS services have both been down for hours. The latest updates to the service health dashboard are promising so things will hopefully be resolved soon, but this definitely isn’t a good sight:
Update
Amazon has posted a full explanation of the recent S3 outage here: Amazon S3 Availability Event: July [...]
Posted in AWS on Jul 20th, 2008
Amazon staff member Jinesh Varia has written a white paper in two parts that describes a “cloud architecture” application built on the SQS, EC2, S3 and SimpleDB services, and discusses best practices for using these services.
This paper is an excellent resource for anyone designing a scalable application based on AWS, especially Part 2 and [...]
Posted in AWS on May 30th, 2008
Amazon has announced the availability of two new Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types with increased CPU processing power, bringing the total number of instance types to five.
The new instances are termed “High-CPU” versions, and they have a focus on raw processing power as measured in EC2 Compute Units (ECUs). The following table puts the [...]
I have added an article about my PAWS Marketplace example application to the AWS resources site: PAWS Marketplace - A Rails Marketplace Application in the Cloud.
The PAWS Marketplace is a proof-of-concept Ruby on Rails web application that runs entirely on Amazon Web Services. The application’s web site allows anyone with an Amazon Payments account to [...]