gigaom.com - 11/18/2008
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Today Amazon Web Services launched the beta version of its content delivery network service called CloudFront . As Om mentioned in September when the service was announced , this is a good move for Amazon, and something that may put the hurt on fellow CDNs such as Limelight and Akamai. ...
aws.amazon.com - 11/18/2008
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aws.amazon.com —
Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content
delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to
give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. ...
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Amazon CloudFront
aws.amazon.com - 11/22/2008
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aws.amazon.com —
Hosted Public Data Sets provide a convenient way
to share, access, and use public data within your
Amazon EC2 environment. Select public data sets are hosted on AWS for free as an Amazon EBS snapshot. Any Amazon EC2 customer can access this data by ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hosted Public Data Sets
allthingsdistributed.com - 11/18/2008
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allthingsdistributed.com —
Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront ,
the new Amazon Web Service for content delivery. It
integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 to provide low-latency distribution of content with high data transfer speeds through a world-wide network of edge ...
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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront
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