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Code on the Road: CloudFront Performance Numbers
CloudFront, however, is amazingly well tuned. That 46ms time remained constant within 2ms every single time I loaded that file. In other words, CloudFront is so much faster and more consistent that there is simply no reason not to use it for all your S3 c
How to Setup Amazon S3 with CloudFront as a Content Delivery Network
This is a simple step-by-step tutorial on how to serve your images and other media faster to end-users using the Amazon S3 + CloudFront Content Delivery Network:
S3 Firefox Organizer
Supports Amazon S3 CloudFront distributions
Amazon Web Services Blog: Distribute Your Content With Amazon CloudFront
Generate fresh URLs for your content using the domain name from step 3 and hand them out. By using our CNAME support you can even make the content appear as if it is coming from your own domain. You can associate up to 10 CNAMEs with each distribution.
RubyForge: amazon-fps-ruby-0.1.0-released
Provides a simple wrapper around the Amazon FPS SOAP web service.
Trying out Windows on EC2
Amazon announced today that you can run Windows on EC2. I'm giving this a go, as being able to spin up virtual Windows boxes on the other side of the world might come in handy one day. I don't see a HOWTO on Amazon's site, so here's a log of my attempt to
Hacking the Amazon S3 SLA
Put another way, in order to avoid giving a refund to our hypothetical attacker, Amazon has to maintain a failure rate almost 10 times lower than what might be naively assumed from reading the SLA.
How to create an EC2 AMI
you will need to download the EC2 command line tools & then set them up. For instructions on how to setup the EC2 tools, read this.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows
The 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Server will be available and will be able to use all existing EC2 features such as Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and the Elastic Block Store. You'll be able to call any of the other Amazon Web Services fro
Shrub / Amazon S3 Proxy
Shrub lists files in public S3 buckets. For when you want to share a bucket with the world.
How?
1. Create a bucket. Make it publicly readable.
2. Point people at your bucket: http://shrub.appspot.com/bucket-name
3. Make sure files in the bucket
AWS Quick Reference Cards
Available in PDF form, the cards summarize the most important data types, function calls, and command line tools for each service. Cards are now available for AAWS, DevPay, EC2, FWS, Mechanical Turk, and SQS, with more to follow before too long.
Ten Thousand Cents - mechanical turk project
"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Work
Amazon S3 - The Beginner’s Guide | Web Tricks
# Gettting an Amazon S3 Account
# Using Amazon S3
# Amazon S3 as Image Hosting
# Amazon S3 Applications and Other Resources
Amazon Launches Content Delivery Network. Rivals Watch Out! - GigaOM
o hundreds of small companies who are already using Amazon Web Services for their web operations, who don’t want to sign long contracts with CDN operators
Amazon goes after Akamai
This new service will provide you a high performance method of distributing content to end users, giving your customers low latency and high data transfer rates when they access your objects. The initial release will help developers and businesses who nee
Why Amazon’s EBS Should Worry Data Centers
ersistent access is key to many applications. With the release of this service, now you can simply use Amazon as a full-scale virtual data server. Another way to think about it: a storage area network in the cloud.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) gives you persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage which you can attach to a running instance of EC2.
Scaling Amazon EC2 to 512 active nodes
The performance degradation of 3 seconds (about 20%) should be considered minor given roughly 250-fold increase in scale. The curve rises two times: in the ranges 2-8 and 256-512, while 8-256 remains almost flat.
TrustSaaS uptime monitoring, alerting and reporting for SaaS
TrustSaas.com is an uptime monitoring and alerting service
WalkScore another AWS Success Story
* We set up 4 EC2 instances
* We moved all of our images, CSS, and JS files to Amazon S3
* We were able to accommodate a spike of about 80K unique visitors during a three hour period
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