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Silicon Alley Insider: Amazon Courting Eggheads To Its Cloud With Free Access To Scientific Data (AMZN)
ReadWriteWeb: Amazon Web Services Seeks Public Data Sets
Politweets: My top Obama technology wishlist projects: robocars http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/ and open up healthcare records/info mgmt
Amazon Courting Eggheads To Its Cloud With Free Access To Scientific Data (AMZN)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... A new feature for the Amazon's (AMZN) EC2? The cloud computing community is abuzz today over Public Data Sets coming soon to Amazon's cloud. ...
Amazon Web Services Seeks Public Data Sets
ReadWriteWeb —
... Called AWS Hosted Public Data Sets, the service will enable you to use public data within your Amazon EC2 environment. Select public data sets will be hosted on AWS for free as an Amazon EBS snapshot. ...
My top Obama technology wishlist projects: robocars http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/ and open up healthcare records/info mgmt
Politweets —
... This is huge for sciences: http://aws.amazon.com/publi... We've been complaining about lack of accessible/persistent science data. ...
Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Ease Research
TechCrunch —
... announced Public Data Sets web service this evening. The project encourages developers, researchers, universities and businesses to upload large (non-confidential) data sets to Amazon - things like census data, genomes, etc. - and then let others integrated that data into their own AWS applications. ...
Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud
Between the Lines —
... For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census Bureau, 3-D chemical structures provided by Indiana University and an annotated form of the Human Genome from Ensembl. By melding research data with storage services such as EC2, Amazon is likely to garner interest from academia and businesses that crunch these datasets. In the future, Amazon will publish a bevy of economic data sets. Under Amazon’s service– called Public Data Sets on AWS –the company will make the information available for free. A company or researcher could then analyze the ...
Amazon launches Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
D' Technology Weblog —
Amazon announced Public Data Sets web service to encourages developers, researchers, universities and businesses to upload large (non-confidential) data sets to Amazon - things like census data, genomes, etc. and then let others integrated that data into their own AWS applications.
More info: Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS) ...
Amazon Debuts Public Data Cloud
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
Amazon Debuts Public Data Cloud Amazon.com has introduced a new service in which it hosts large data sets--economic, demographic, scientific, and medical data, for example--that are open for anyone to access. Its an interesting proposal, but one that casts Amazon in the potentially difficult role of having to be an information gatekeeper. The new offering, hosted on Amazons recently introduced Elastic Block Storage, is called Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hosted Public Data Sets . Amazon first described the service a few weeks ago; today marks the official launch. So far, Amazon ...
Amazon Starts Renting Out the Human Genome
Bits —
Forget books, MP3 players or vacuums. Amazon.com wants to flog you a copy of the human genome this holiday season. Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has started offering access to large collections of data. Business customers and scientists can take the information, which ranges from census databases to three-dimensional chemical structures and the genome, and use it as the basis for computing jobs. By gathering and storing the information, Amazon says that it can save businesses the step of assembling and managing data on their own. The data program builds on ...
Amazon Adds New Service: Public Data Sets
SitePoint —
... Amazon has a wide range of public data sets available now and plans to add more in the future.
At launch, or shortly after, Amazon’s service offers human genome and DNA sequencing data from Ensembl, and the National Center for Biotechnology Information; chemistry data from Indiana University; and economic data from the US Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Transportation Services, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
How will you use the data Amazon is making available? What types of mashups would you likes to see created? And ...
Amazon hopes to cash in on research market
Amazon & the online retail blog —
You didn't see a post on this blog yesterday because I was working all day on understanding Amazon.com's recent announcement of putting public data sets in the cloud. Amazon Web Services logo The announcement, made last week, is more than just another added cloud computing service. It opens up the market for Amazon Web Services and is, I think, a significant development for AWS that deserved extra attention. The full text of my article is at ...
Microsoft’s Open Government Data Initiative with Windows Azure
Geek In Disguise —
... In an era of increasing accountability and transparency it looks like a step in the right direction and follows in the footsteps of Amazon’s Public Data Sets on AWS ...
Amazon Hosts TIGER Mapping Data
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... The TIGER Data is one of the first Public Data Sets to be moved off of S3 and switched to an EBS. By running as an EBS users can mount the EC2 instance as a drive and easily run their processes (like rendering tiles with Mapnik) with the data remotely. If you're a geo-hacker this makes a rich set of Geo data readily available to you without consuming your own storage resources or dealing with the normally slow download process. ...
Infochimps: Share and Sell Your Raw Data
ReadWriteWeb —
... - but the majority of the data is user-submitted. They've also partnered with Amazon to share Infochimps data with Amazon's Public Data Sets service. To date, one-third of Amazon's Public Data Sets were contributed by Infochimps. ...
