Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that [...] [...more]
Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. This has been an option that customers have been asking us about for some time so we are [...] [...more]
Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. Customers can now store their data and run their applications from our Singapore location in the same way they do from our other U.S. and European Regions. The importance of Regions Quite often [...] [...more]
The ecosystem of new application and platform services in the cloud is the future of application development. It will drive rapid innovation and we’ll see a wealth of mobile, web and desktop applications arrive that we couldn’t dream about a few years ago, and these building blocks are the enablers of that. These services will [...] [...more]
I am excited that Amazon Cloudfront has been selected as one of the 10 Editor’s pick of 2010 by Streaming Media. Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. From a technology point it literally takes a single button [...] [...more]
