Category Archives: AWS

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

I have been out of blogging action for a little while due to an international move. My first week in Portland, OR, USA has been great (though cold) and now that I have some time I should get back to … Continue reading →