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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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Amazon DevPay Leaves Beta

Amazon’s DevPay service graduated recently from beta to general availability, which means that it is now easier for companies in the United States to build a business based on Amazon Web Services. DevPay allows you to sell your own applications … Continue reading

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SimpleDB Now Open to the Public, with Improvements

Amazon’s SimpleDB online data storage and querying service is now in unlimited public beta, which means that you can sign up for the service and have your account activated immediately. Previously, new users had to wait an indeterminate amount of … Continue reading

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CloudFront: A CDN for Amazon's Simple Storage Service

Amazon has added a new service to their arsenal. CloudFront is a content delivery service that works closely with S3 to make public objects in your account available through a distribution network with edge locations in the US, Europe and … Continue reading

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EC2: Out of beta, adds an SLA and Windows!

Amazon has announced a major update to EC2, its service that provides on-demand computing power. The service has graduated from “beta” to production level, which means that a Service Level Agreement is now available. If you experience uptime below 99.95% … Continue reading

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Code samples for new SimpleDB feature: QueryWithAttributes

A couple of weeks ago, a new API operation was added to Amazon’s SimpleDB service: QueryWithAttributes. This operation makes it possible to retrieve all the attribute data for SimpleDB items that match a query. Previously, to retrieve item attributes it … Continue reading

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