IntroductionAmazon CloudFront's network of edge locations (currently 30, with more in the works) gives you the ability to distribute static and streaming content to your users at high speed with low latency.
Today we are introducing a set of featur...
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We have added two new features to the AWS Storage Gateway: a powerful set of APIs and support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
AWS Storage Gateway APIsUp until now, the AWS Storage Gateway was configurable through the AWS Management Consol...
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My friends over at Drobo recently let me know about a pair of additions to their product lineup. Taken together, they give you a lot of additional data storage, backup, and retrieval flexibility.
If you don't know, a Drobo is a local storage box de...
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At the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects in Amazon S3. We routinely handle 650,000 requests per second for those objects with occasional peaks substantially above that number. Here is the latest chart:
The S3 object coun...
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Backup and RecoverOn March 29th I'll be covering the topic of backup and recovery of on-premise and cloud-based Linux systems. I'll cover a number of topics including creation of file archives, uploading to Amazon S3, and managing permissions a...
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I'm pleased to announce that the AWS Storage Gateway is now available in our South America (São Paulo) Region. The AWS Storage Gateway service connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to integrate your existing on-prem...
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Today's guest post is brought to you by Doug Grismore, Director of Storage Operations for AWS. Doug has some useful performance tips and tricks that will help you to get the best possible performance from Amazon S3. There's also information abo...
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As you can tell from my recent post on Amazon S3 Growth for 2011, our customers are uploading new objects to Amazon S3 at an incredible rate. We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down storage costs and pass along the resultant savings to yo...
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As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times.
Here's the annual growth chart:
This represents year-over-year growth of 192%; S3 gre...
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Today's guest blogger is Adam Gray. Adam is a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team.
-- Jeff;
Apache Hadoop and NoSQL databases are complementary technologies that together provide a powerful toolbox for managing, analyzing, and monetizing...
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Warning: If you don't have a data center, or if all of your IT infrastructure is already in the cloud, you may not need to read this post! But feel free to pass it along to your friends and colleagues.
The Storage GatewayOur new AWS Storage Gatewa...
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Amazon S3 is a great way to store files for the short or for the long term.
If you use S3 to store log files or other files that have a limited lifetime, you probably had to build some sort of mechanism in-house to track object ages and to initiate a b...
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The AWS team is growing rapidly and we're all doing our best to find, interview, and hire the best people for each job. In order to do my part to grow our team, I started to list the most interesting and relevant open jobs at the end of my blog pos...
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Amazon S3's new Multi-Object Delete gives you the ability to delete up to 1000 objects from an S3 bucket with a single request. If you are planning to delete large numbers of objects from S3 then you can quickly do so by using Multi-Object Delete. ...
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Matt Gerber,CEO of managed service provider IT-Lifeline spent some time talking about AWS on camera. Here's the full video:
Matt enumerates the three main benefits that AWS provides him: cost, elasticity, and time to market (sometimes saving 6 months ...
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A lot of technical tasks that seem simple in theory are often very complex to implement. For example, let's say that you want to encrypt all of the data that you store in Amazon S3. You need to choose an encryption algorithm, create and store keys...
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Our customers continue to make very heavy use of Amazon S3. We now process up to 370,000 S3 requests per second.
Many of these are PUT requests, representing new data that is flowing in to S3. As of the end of the third quarter of 2011, there are 566 ...
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Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling Filter Squad from Perth, Australia!
In one of Wern...
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Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling Filter Squad from Perth, Australia!
In one of Wern...
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In honor of today's Facebook Developer Conference, I'd like to recognize the success of our existing Facebook app developers and invite even more developers to kick-start their next Facebook app project with Amazon Web Services.
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In honor of today's Facebook Developer Conference, I'd like to recognize the success of our existing Facebook app developers and invite even more developers to kick-start their next Facebook app project with Amazon Web Services.
Quick Numbers ...
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Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling ShowNearby, from Singapore!
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Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling Classle, from Chennai, India!
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We have added three new features to the Amazon S3 tab of the AWS Management Console:
Easier Access - You no longer need to install Adobe Flash or provide outbound access to port 843 on your network in order to use the S3 tab.
Folder Upload - You can n...
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