Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB, a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. Several years ago we published a paper on the details [...] [...more]
Package: Amazon Mechanical Turk PHP REST API Summary: Setup crowdsourcing tasks with Mechanical Turk API Groups: PHP 5, Web services Author: CPK Smithies Description: This package can set up, maintain and query crowd-sourcing tasks with the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service… Read more at http://www.phpclasses.org/package/7196-PHP-Setup-crowdsourcing-tasks-with-Mechanical-Turk-API.html View full post on PHP Classes: Latest entries [...more]
The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazon’s high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. With this new functionality AWS Import/Export now supports importing data directly into Amazon EBS snapshots. Once loaded into [...] [...more]
As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. If you have a largely static site you can rely on the enormous power of S3 to make serving your content highly scalable and storing [...] [...more]
Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache, a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different [...] [...more]
