Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in AWS on Apr 14th, 2009
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 you to easily encrypt data that you store in S3. Check out the JetS3t website [...]
Posted in AWS on Apr 14th, 2009
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 queues so that third-parties could participate in their messaging system. This feature was deprecated by [...]
Posted in AWS on Apr 14th, 2009
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.
Posted in AWS on Apr 1st, 2009
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¢. The announcement is at the top of the Amazon S3 home page and the service’s [...]
Posted in AWS on Mar 13th, 2009
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 work… EC2 Reserved Instances The latest news regarding EC2 is the new Reserved Instances feature. [...]
The latest version of JetS3t (jet-set), my Java library for Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, is now publicly available. Visit the JetS3t web site to download version 0.7.0, to run the latest online applications, or to read the updated documentation. Version 0.7.0 includes a number of bug fixes and support for some of the newest features [...]