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gigaom.com - 11/11/2008

Amazon Web Services Not Just for Early Adopters [GigaOM]

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Amazon Web Services’ platform is increasingly gaining popularity beyond Web 2.0 and video companies . Case in point is the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge , whose seven finalists are a diverse group of companies, among them Knewton , which provides live online educational ...

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aws.amazon.com - 11/18/2008

Amazon CloudFront

— 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.  ... (more) Amazon CloudFront

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allthingsdistributed.com - 11/18/2008

Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront

— 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 ... (more) Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront

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aws.amazon.com - 11/7/2008

AWS Start-Up Challenge

— aws.amazon.com — AWS Start-Up Challenge With the 2008 AWS Start-Up Challenge, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is searching for the... next hot start-up that is leveraging AWS to build its infrastructure and business. The grand prize is $100,000 in cash and AWS credits and a ... (more) AWS Start-Up Challenge

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Amazon Helps Encoding.com Slash Video Costs
NewTeeVee — ... Last week brand-new video startup Encoding.com was named a finalist in Amazon’s Start-Up Challenge, one of seven in the running for $100,000 in cash and Amazon Web Services credits and a possible investment from Amazon. Resource-intensive video startups have a pretty good record in the competition — if you can say such a thing for a one-year-old event. Last year video platform Ooyala took home the grand prize, and Justin.tv was a finalist. Denver-based Encoding.com uses on-demand cloud computing to enable pay-as-you-go video encoding ...

Yieldex Wins AWS Startup Challenge [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... built its ad forecasting platform using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and the Amazon Simple Storage Service. It won $50,000 in AWS services as well as $50,000 in cash, and may even get an Amazon investment. In addition, it and six other finalists got to pitch their businesses to several VC firm including BlueRun Ventures, CMEA Ventures, Greylock Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Madrona Venture Group, who help judge the contest. Last year’s ...

Amazon Launches EC2 in Europe [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... and Simple Storage Service as an option for European developers. This means companies using Amazon Web Services can host the data and run their applications in Europe, rather than host the data in Europe and run the apps in the U.S. This cuts down on latency and the costs of sharing data between EC2 and S3 in Europe. However, those in Europe will have to wait for the opportunity to run Windows Server and SQL Server on EC2 — features that are available in the States. ...