Amazon Bucket-Testing New Home Page Design
Amazon.com is previewing a new home page redesign with some of their users (in the exciting world of springing jarring changes onto the users of unreasonably large web sites, this is known as...
View ArticleNew Amazon MP3 Store is Righteous
I heard a rumor that the one millionth Amazon.com MP3 store fanboy blog post would win a free frozen turkey delivered personally by Jeff Bezos, so here goes. I needed to buy the Lily Allen record...
View ArticleAmazon S3 Provides Service-Level Agreement
Terrific news, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service now has an SLA. This is one of the big features that they were missing and I suspect it’s going to go a long way toward making S3 more attractive as a...
View ArticleAmazon Rolls Out New EC2 Server Types
Amazon.com added some beefier server configurations to their EC2 virtualization product (and some new price points). You can now get a virtual 64-bit server with 7.5 GB of RAM and 850 GB of storage for...
View ArticleShortcuts to Amazon MP3 Search
Yahoo! Search’s "Open Shortcuts" feature is the thing that keeps me using Yahoo! Search. It’s sort of a geek/power user feature, but it’s incredibly useful if you do lots of searches on specific sites....
View ArticleSanDisk Flash Drive to Offer Web Storage
Link: SanDisk Flash Drive to Offer Automatic Web Storage The web storage service they’re using is none other than Amazon S3. The pricing model (first six months free to get consumers hooked, then $30 a...
View ArticleNew Platform Consulting Products: Amazon and Facebook
Just posted three new categories of consulting practices over on the consulting web site: Facebook (application strategy, corporate presence and application development) Amazon Web Services (focusing...
View ArticleWindows on Amazon EC2
Back in February I suggested that Amazon and Microsoft should figure out a way to provide Windows Server on Amazon’s EC2 hosting service. Three weeks ago, Amazon announced a private beta of their...
View ArticleComparative Pricing for Virtual Hosting Providers
Rackspace just launched a new suite of cloud computing (really virtualized hosting) products. We use a bunch of these products from different companies. We also have a consulting practice dedicated to...
View ArticleUpdated Virtual Hosting Buyer’s Guide
I updated the virtual hosting buyer’s guide that I’ve been maintaining for a while now; I also gave it its own permalink so I wouldn’t have to keep looking at old posts on this blog to figure out where...
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