Category Archives: AWS

JetS3t Version 0.7.0 Released

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 … Continue reading

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CloudFront Pricing Update

Amazon’s CloudFront service will have new pricing tiers from February 1. On a related note, here are some tools for using CloudFront. The next version of my JetS3t suite will also include support for CloudFront at the API level and … Continue reading

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AWS Management Console – EC2 Support

In a concerted push to open up its infrastructure web services to a wider audience, Amazon is building a web-based user interface to their services called the AWS Management Console (console.aws.amazon.com). The initial version of the console was released earlier … Continue reading

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AWS Security Update: Signature Version 2 for AWS Query APIs

Amazon has announced an improved request signature protocol for authenticating HTTP requests sent to SimpleDB, to Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), or to the Simple Queue Service (SQS). The new protocol, version 2, fixes a security flaw in the version 1 … Continue reading

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SDB Tool: A New Firefox Plugin for Amazon's Simple DB

A handy new graphical tool for working with the Amazon Simple DB service has been announced on the AWS Blog. SDB Tool is a Firefox plugin for querying and updating your Simple DB database domains. The tool is very functional, … Continue reading

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EC2 Now in the EU

The eagle-eyed folks at RightScale have spotted a new EC2 feature guide document describing the long-anticipated release of Amazon EC2 Regions. In short, EC2 is now available in the EU region, with potentially more regions to follow. This is great … Continue reading

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