Archive for the tag 'AWS'

Amazon – what is coming soon, and what is not !

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 the [...]

Amazon Elastic MapReduce now available in Europe

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 in [...]

Is billing Amazon’s Achilles heel ?

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 [...]

Amazon EC2 News / Round Up

There is a good PDF whitepaper on using Oracle with Amazon Web Services which can be downloaded here.

A tutorial by Amazon on creating an Active Directory Domain on Amazon EC2 is a thorough article and well worth the read if you intend to implement this functionality on the cloud.

Simon Brunozzi from Amazon gives a good [...]

London Amazon Web Services Startup Event Videos

For those of you who missed the Amazon Web Services startup event in London, you can find the customer presentations on Slideshare.net. And view the videos from the links below:
Cedric Roll, Co-Founder, ORbyte Solutions http://www.vimeo.com/4409867
Felipe Padilla, Co-Founder, Skipso http://www.vimeo.com/4409569
Nigel Hamilton, CEO, Turbo10.com http://www.vimeo.com/4409682
Simone Brunozzi, Getting Started with AWS http://www.vimeo.com/4411474
Tal Saraf, Accelerating Your Website with CloudFront http://www.vimeo.com/4409756