mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 30 2008 | development, amazon, s3, scalability, data center, todo
I've been waiting for something like this.
Quoted: Amazon DevPay removes the pain of having to create or manage your own order pipeline or billing system. It allows you to quickly sign up customers, automatically meter their usage of AWS services, have Amazon bill them based on pricing you set, and collect payments.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 14 2008 | ec2, s3, amazon, distributed systems, technology, development
Nice, this was a critical missing piece in AWS.
Quoted: I would like to introduce to you the newest feature of Amazon EC2: Persistent local storage. This has been very high on the request list of EC2 customers and I believe that combined with the Availability Zones and Elastic IP Address features released earlier this month this makes EC2 the ideal environment for building highly scalable and reliable applications.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 11 2007 | amazon, s3, storage, development
This new per request charge is very annoying -- especially in scenarios like the one I'm planning where you are using S3 for lots of small files.
Quoted: I had largely ignored the Amazon S3 pricing hike or decrease (depending on who you are) which included the addition of a per request charge. It really popped up again when I was recently talking to a new accelerator (just a few) + CDN customer recently.
ShareViewed: 10 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2006 | development, software, process, vogels, amazon
I've heard this from a number of Amazon folks...
Quoted: The Working Backwards product definition process is all about is fleshing out the concept and achieving clarity of thought about what we will ultimately go off and build. It typically has four steps:
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 14 2006 | development, queues, amazon, web services, blogsVery cool that these kinds of "plumbing" services are becoming available on the web. This particular service lets application developers focus on usability while knowing that scalable/reliable queueing will be handled for them.
Quoted: Yesterday the Amazon Simple Queue Service moved from beta to production. SQS provides persistent messaging with the scalability and reliability of Amazon’s infrastructure. As a developer you can create an unlimited number of Queues and store unlimited messages in a Queue.
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