Can Scanning as a Service Clean Your Desk Off?. Does your desk look like this photo? No comment on where the photo was taken, of course... There's hope! Pixily just launched, with a business model that could be described as "NetFlix in reverse". They offer a plan that allows...

WalkScore.com - Another Web Hosting Success Story. Everyday, we hear new stories about a cool new startup and its success story. Today, It was WalkScore.com. The website offers some great information about which neighborhood/city is more walkable than the rest (San francisco was #1 and Seattle was...

New features come to Amazon SimpleDB. Amazon SimpleDB released a new version last week. With this new version, developers will be now able sort the results and use a new does-not-start-with operator in their queries - the two most frequently asked feature requests. I am very...

Amazon DevPay Introduces Tiered Usage-Based Pricing. Amazon DevPay now has a new and very powerful feature: tiered pricing for all usage-based components of a product's price. Using this new feature, you have more flexibility when you create the pricing plan for your product. Specifically, you can...

2008 AWS Start-Up Tour. Update! San Francisco and Silicon Valley had the dates reversed. Corrected calendar listed below. We’re really excited to announce our AWS Start-Up Tour again in 2008, and this year we’re adding cities to include more hotbeds of innovation. The event...

Vertica / Sonian / Amazon Webinar. Earlier this year I talked about the unique and powerful AWS-powered solutions offered by Vertica and Sonian. Tomorrow (August 21st), I will be taking part in a unique, three-party webinar. In the webinar you'll get to hear from me, from...

Amazon EBS - Tool and Library Support. This is a companion post to my earlier post -- Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data. In the other post you can read about the features of EBS. This post goes into more detail on the...

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data. A few months ago I talked about our plans to offer a persistent storage feature for Amazon EC2. At that time I indicated that the service was in a limited alpha release with a small number of customers. Since then...

Amazon SimpleDB Releases QueryWithAttributes. Amazon SimpleDB just released an update that includes a new feature called QueryWithAttributes. With this update, developers will be now able to retrieve all the information associated with items returned as a response to a particular query. The feature provides...

RightScale Webinar: Leveraging Amazon's Elastic Block Store. The folks at RightScale will be conducting a webinar on Thursday, August 28th at 10 AM PDT. They'll focus on the recently announced Amazon Elastic Block Store, discussing application scenarios, mission-critical deployment, architecture, and design considerations. Michael Crandell (RightScale CEO)...