Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer of Amazon, has posted an article on his blog detailing the release of DynamoDB, a NoSQL database solution built from the ground up to scale in the cloud. This... (Read More)
Author: Toby Tremayne / January 22 2012 , 1 Comment
Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage solution is useful for many things, and serves as the CDN for many major websites. But despite the portfolio of high-profile use cases for the service,... (Read More)
Author: Joel Falconer / December 23 2011 , 2 Comments
Part Two: Recovering an EC2 Instance from a Snapshot. Skill Level: Intermediate. Operating System(s): Linux. Last Time in Part One… We left off at the end of part one with a scheduled snapshot... (Read More)
Author: Eric Stone / November 7 2011 , 2 Comments
This is the final article in a three part series focused on setting up EC2 as a sandbox for application developers. I assume you have an AWS account with Amazon; if you don’t, please read Part... (Read More)
Author: John Degner / October 26 2011 , 1 Comment
Part One: Scheduling Snapshots Using Cron Skill Level: Intermediate Operating System(s): Linux Philosophy 99.999% Uptime. That is a wonderful goal, and in order to get there we must plan for the... (Read More)
Author: Eric Stone / October 21 2011 , 8 Comments
This is the second installment in a three part series focusing on setting up EC2 to use as a development sandbox. In this entry, we'll learn how to configure the development environment and install... (Read More)
Author: John Degner / October 17 2011 , 1 Comment
In this article, I will explain how Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES) is a better way to send email from your web application, and I’ll provide a roadmap for getting started. Generally... (Read More)
Author: David Bitter / October 6 2011 , 2 Comments
Recently, Amazon Web Services experienced one of the largest disruptions the cloud computing service has seen. The failure caused a ripple effect across many websites such as Quora and HootSuite,... (Read More)
Author: Brandon Eley / September 20 2011 , 0 Comments
If you're an enterprising web application developer, you've no doubt been interested in experimenting with Amazon's cloud offerings in the past few years. Maybe you aim to "survive your success," as... (Read More)
Author: John Degner / September 14 2011 , 0 Comments











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