Category: Amazon EC2
AWS SDK for .NET
November 12th, 2009, 2 Comments
It looks like Amazon is marching towards IaaS-domination with the release of an SDK for .NET.
It’s interesting that they only support C# and not VB.NET. You would think that since there are more VB developers they could more bang for their buck by offering both languages. Perhaps VB.NET is on the roadmap.
“The AWS SDK for [...]
Learn Amazon Web Services
September 29th, 2009, No Comments
I sat in on the Amazon SimpleDB webinar the other day and it was really interesting. They demo’d a PHP app that populates SimpleDB from a MySQL database. Very cool!
The presenter has a really cool site with a bunch of great tutorials and videos. If you are interested in the Amazon IaaS, you should really [...]
Appirio Announces Cloudsourcing Focus
September 24th, 2009, No Comments
The Appirio CIO Blog has a great new post called, “Cloudsourcing: Where Cloud Computing Meets Outsourcing”. Some organizational changes have been to focus on this emerging segment of the cloud market. How do CIO move their IT assets to clouds like Salesforce, Amazon, and Google? What’s the roadmap look like? What are the risks? What [...]
Amazon Announces Elastic Block Store (EBS) Shared Snapshots
September 24th, 2009, No Comments
Amazon EBS shared snapshots allow you to back up point-in-time snapshots of your data to Amazon S3 for durable recovery. The ability to share these snapshots makes it easy for you to share this data with your co-workers or others in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community.
With this feature, users that you have authorized can [...]
SpringSource and VMware – A Match Made in the Cloud?
August 27th, 2009, No Comments
VMware recently announced the acquisition of SpringSource, an open-source Java tools maker, for $400M. Not bad for SpringSoruce which only has $25M in revenues. I’ve been a big fan of SpringSource and user of their tools for quite a while. Hopefully this turns out to be a good deal for SpringSource and developers using their [...]
Amazon Announces Virtual Private Cloud
August 26th, 2009, No Comments
This morning Amazon announced the support for a Virtual Private Cloud:
“We are excited to announce the limited beta of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), a secure and seamless bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables you to connect your existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute [...]
Amazon SimpleDB Plugin for Eclipse
July 23rd, 2009, No Comments
Amazon once again is again stepping up its game in the IaaS space. This morning they announced support for SimpleDB in their Eclipse plugin. You can now administer your SimpleDB data without writing a single line of code.
With each release, Amazon is pushing into the space of companies like Rightscale and forcing these types of [...]
AWS Toolkit for Eclipse
March 26th, 2009, No Comments
Yesterday Amazon launched their new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. The toolkit is targeted at Amazon EC2 developers and provides basic management features along with tools for deploying and debugging Java web applications.
They have a really nice video hitting the main features.
You can find out more about the AWT Toolkit for Eclipse at http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse.
I got a [...]
Amazon's EC2 Console Makes Cloud Computing Fun and Easy
January 9th, 2009, No Comments
The new Amazon EC2 Console is a slick point-and-click, web-based user interface providing access to Amazon’s suite of infrastructure web services. AWS has typically been a geek service due to it’s command line interface, but this new console should attract new (Windows) customers that are more confortable with a point-and-click interface.
Saleforce.com & Google App Engine… these are a few of my favorite things…
December 10th, 2008, 2 Comments
Salesforce.com just announced the release of the Force.com for Google App Engine which is a Python library and test harness that lets you access the Force.com Web services API from within Google App Engine applications.
It’s interesting to watch how Salesforce.com and Google are integrating their offerings. There’s been a number of rumors in the past [...]
