Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 25 Mar 2012
Musing about iCloud, the forthcoming SkyDrive integration into Windows 8, and Google Drive got me thinking about DropBox, the company whose business model is built on charging when everyone else is starting to give large amounts of storage away for free. DropBox killer feature is their sync replication. It just works, and consumers have shown [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 17 Sep 2011
The Amazon Cloud has now classed as being FISMA certified. FISMA is an acronym for Federal Information Security Management Act. FISMA sets security requirements for federal IT systems. and is a required certification for US federal government projects. This is the third set of certifications Amazon has recently announced coming on top of VPC ISO [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Feb 2011
In a move that has put it into direct competition with competitors such as RackSpace. Amazon has announced that you can now host your website using an Amazon S3 Account. With these new features, Amazon S3 now provides a simple and inexpensive way to host your website in one place at a very cheap price. [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 16 Dec 2010
I don’t think anyone would argue that Amazon S3 is the big bear of the Cloud market, both on the virtual cloud infrastructure and the cloud storage side of things. Amazon S3 has more than 102 billion objects stored on it as of March 2010. As befits a dominant player the interface that Amazon exposes [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 17 Nov 2010
As well as being SAS 70 Type II-certified Amazon is now ISO 27001 certified. ISO/IEC 27001 formally outlines a management system that brings information security under management control, and mandates requirements that have to be met. Organisations that have adopted ISO/IEC 27001 may be formally audited to maintain compliance with the standard. As stated on [...]
Cloud admin on 03 Jun 2010
In a recent post CenterNetworks noted that the Amazon S3 service is showing elevated error rates. They noticed that several images were not loading correctly and they heard from multiple CN readers with the same issue on their sites. They note the issues seem only to be hitting the U.S. Standard centers — other S3 [...]
Amazon Web Services admin on 19 May 2010
introduce a new storage option for Amazon S3 called Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than the standard storage of Amazon S3. It provides a cost-effective solution for distributing or sharing content that is durably stored elsewhere, or for storing [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 24 Jul 2009
We had a meeting with Amazon in the UK recently and covered off some off the pressing issues that we wanted to speak about and also learnt some other of what Amazon have lined up. First, what is not going to happen anytime soon: – From what we heard Amazon are not going to resolve [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 08 Jul 2009
From the Amazon Web Services Blog: Earlier this year I wrote about Amazon Elastic MapReduce and the ways in which it can be used to process large data sets on a cluster of processors. Since the announcement, our customers have wholeheartedly embraced the service and have been doing some very impressive work with it (more on this [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Jun 2009
Having worked on a number of projects with Amazon Web Services recently the one non-technical thing that has stood out is the billing model that Amazon adopts which basically forces the company to have a credit card available and then Amazon produce an email with the least amount of information possible on it to tell [...]
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