The new Kindle!

Quoted: Amazon.com: Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation): Kindle Store

EC2 just launched Windows support and announced pricing. Summary: Windows instances add 25% to the instance-hours component.

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Standard Instances Linux/UNIX Windows
Small (Default) $0.10 per hour $0.125 per hour
Large $0.40 per hour $0.50 per hour
Extra Large $0.80 per hour $1.00 per hour

Good (and big) news.

Quoted: In an attempt to pre-empt Microsoft’s possible announcement about their cloud offerings in the upcoming PDC at Los Angeles later this month, Amazon Web Services has announced support for Windows Server on their EC2 instances. You can read this announcement here. You can sign up to get notified about the release at AWS website.

Seth on the Kindle...

Quoted: It's for women and women are buying it. The bestseller list of Kindle titles is much less tech-heavy than Amazon's list was in the early days of the web. An Oprah book is #1.

Amazon is down. Outages happen even at the top sites.

Quoted: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

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.

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.

refave. go mikhail!

Quoted: Seregine left to start ClayValet, a company that claims to simplify online shopping by "having someone else shop for them." The 2002 Stanford computer-science graduate started building the service in January, received funding from undisclosed angel investors and launched on Friday, just in time for the holiday shopping frenzy.

Search Amazon from your cell phone. Now, only if it had a "Fave It" button next to each item.

Quoted: Amazon.com