Fwd: Top Announcements for January

[Owen Densmore]

Kinda fascinating that Amazon Web Services has become the world's IT department.  They make slow, steady, constant, useful advances.  I'm always surprised about what I *don't* know about their services when I take a peek back into their ecology.

And folks like Dropbox are hip enough to just build their entire company on top of AWS.  As are others:

  http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/all/

.. one of which is Stitcher, the "radio" I use for podcasts.  They even have Italian "stations".

I mention all this here because of its subtle integration into the cultural, almost anthropological parts of our lives.

We think of Google, Apple etc as the big guys in the room.  AWS is pulling ahead.  I bet they have a phone soon.  The Kindle Fire's are so good my son gave both his kids one for christmas.  Their first computer is a tablet, and benefits from AWS and Android.  I bet Amazon maintains the most stable, reasonable, sensible versions of Android, btw.  The phone companies haven't done that great a job.

   -- Owen

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Amazon EC2
New M3 Instance Sizes and Features
M3 instances are now available in two new sizes: m3.medium and m3.large with 1 and 2 vCPUs, respectively. M3 instances now feature SSD-based instance storage and support for Amazon S3-backed AMIs. These M3 instances feature high frequency Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge) processors and are available in all AWS Regions, with AWS GovCloud (US) support coming soon.
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Amazon S3 & Amazon EBS Price Reductions Prices for Amazon S3 standard storage and Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) were lowered by up to 22%. In the US Standard Region, S3 standard storage prices are being lowered by up to 22%, with similar price reductions across all other Regions. Amazon EBS Standard Volume prices are lowered up to 50% for both storage and I/O requests. Learn More »

Amazon Redshift New SSD-based Node Type Amazon Redshift now offers Dense Compute nodes, a new SSD-based node type that enables customers to create even faster, lower-cost data warehouses with Amazon Redshift. Customers can now start smaller with 160GB datasets for as little as $0.10/hour, and then easily scale to a cluster with thousands of cores, terabytes of RAM, and hundreds of terabytes of SSD storage. Learn More »

 

 

Amazon CloudFront & Amazon Route 53 New Features and Edge Locations Amazon CloudFront now supports Geo Restriction, a new feature that allows customers to restrict access to their content based on the geographic location of end users. This is useful for scenarios such as delivering movies and distribution of encrypted software. Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 launched new edge locations in Manila, Marseille, Rio de Janeiro, Taipei, and Warsaw. Learn More »

AWS Summits 2014 San Francisco Registration is Now Open Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn something new at an AWS Summit. These free events, held around the world, are designed to educate new customers about the AWS platform and offer existing customers deep technical content to be more successful with AWS. Register Free for San Francisco » See Dates and Locations Worldwide »

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[Barry MacKichan]

I read a rumor that Apple’s iCloud is (or was originally) running on AWS and Azure. It was described as being “striped” across the two systems.

We now have about 90% of our servers on AWS, and we have been happy. There have been a handful of glitches and outages, but their record is far better that we were ever able to do for ourselves.

—Barry

On Feb 5, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Kinda fascinating that Amazon Web Services has become the world's IT department.  They make slow, steady, constant, useful advances.  I'm always surprised about what I *don't* know about their services when I take a peek back into their ecology.

And folks like Dropbox are hip enough to just build their entire company on top of AWS.  As are others:

  http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/all/

.. one of which is Stitcher, the "radio" I use for podcasts.  They even have Italian "stations".

I mention all this here because of its subtle integration into the cultural, almost anthropological parts of our lives.

We think of Google, Apple etc as the big guys in the room.  AWS is pulling ahead.  I bet they have a phone soon.  The Kindle Fire's are so good my son gave both his kids one for christmas.  Their first computer is a tablet, and benefits from AWS and Android.  I bet Amazon maintains the most stable, reasonable, sensible versions of Android, btw.  The phone companies haven't done that great a job.

   -- Owen

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Amazon Web Services <[hidden email]>
Date: Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:04 AM
Subject: Top Announcements for January
To: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]>

 

The latest news, updates, and more

View in Browser

 

 

---

Amazon EC2
New M3 Instance Sizes and Features
M3 instances are now available in two new sizes: m3.medium and m3.large with 1 and 2 vCPUs, respectively. M3 instances now feature SSD-based instance storage and support for Amazon S3-backed AMIs. These M3 instances feature high frequency Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge) processors and are available in all AWS Regions, with AWS GovCloud (US) support coming soon.
Learn More »

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Amazon S3 & Amazon EBS Price Reductions Prices for Amazon S3 standard storage and Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) were lowered by up to 22%. In the US Standard Region, S3 standard storage prices are being lowered by up to 22%, with similar price reductions across all other Regions. Amazon EBS Standard Volume prices are lowered up to 50% for both storage and I/O requests. Learn More »

Amazon Redshift New SSD-based Node Type Amazon Redshift now offers Dense Compute nodes, a new SSD-based node type that enables customers to create even faster, lower-cost data warehouses with Amazon Redshift. Customers can now start smaller with 160GB datasets for as little as $0.10/hour, and then easily scale to a cluster with thousands of cores, terabytes of RAM, and hundreds of terabytes of SSD storage. Learn More »

 

 

Amazon CloudFront & Amazon Route 53 New Features and Edge Locations Amazon CloudFront now supports Geo Restriction, a new feature that allows customers to restrict access to their content based on the geographic location of end users. This is useful for scenarios such as delivering movies and distribution of encrypted software. Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 launched new edge locations in Manila, Marseille, Rio de Janeiro, Taipei, and Warsaw. Learn More »

AWS Summits 2014 San Francisco Registration is Now Open Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn something new at an AWS Summit. These free events, held around the world, are designed to educate new customers about the AWS platform and offer existing customers deep technical content to be more successful with AWS. Register Free for San Francisco » See Dates and Locations Worldwide »

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New Developer Tools Test with DynamoDB Local in Visual Studio » Test with DynamoDB Local in Eclipse »

Customer Success Story Read the Story »

Introduction to AWS
See a Demo, Take a Lab, and Get Started with an AWS Service in Minutes »

 

AWS Marketplace News New Free Software Trials »

More Recent News Read the Latest News »

AWS Events and Webinars
View All and Register »

 

 

          

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