Category: Amazon EC2
WaveMaker’s IDE for the Cloud
June 4th, 2010, No Comments
Yesterday at Appirio we had a private demo of the WaveMaker platform from the guys at WaveMaker. I’ll try to recap most of the things that I heard as it pertains to Salesforce.com and vmforce but for more details you’ll want to check out their website. The WaveMaker platform allows you to build applications that [...]
Amazon Announces Simple Notification Service
April 13th, 2010, No Comments
Amazon recently unveiled yet another infrastructure building block to their suite of services. Simple Notification Service (SNS) allows you to build applications with publish/subscribe messaging functionality. SNS is distributed and redundant and retries message delivery if necessary. Owners create and manage Topics (URIs identifying specific topics, content or event types) that are received by Subscriber [...]
Amazon Releases AWS SDK for Java
March 23rd, 2010, No Comments
Today Amazon released the AWS SDK for Java allowing developers to tap into the various AWS infrastructure services such Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more. Fully integrated with the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, the SDK hides much of the lower-level plumbing, including authentication, request retries, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
