aws.typepad.com - 11/18/2008
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A few months ago I talked about our plans to create and offer a service for content delivery. That service is called Amazon CloudFront and it ready now!Like all of our other services, CloudFront was designed with ease of use...
techcrunch.com - 11/25/2008
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techcrunch.com —
Update on the Kindle 2: It was scheduled
to be released in October in time for this...
holiday season, but Bezos himself reportedly pulled the plug for last minute changes to the software. Our sources now say it’s tentatively scheduled to go on ...
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Amazon Kindle 2 Slated For “Early Q1″
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
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Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom
Between the Lines —
... , blog ) where CloudFront fits into its Web services portfolio: Built on Amazon’s own highly reliable infrastructure, CloudFront lets developers and businesses deliver HTTP content through a worldwide network of edge locations. The service caches copies of content close to end users for low latency delivery, while also providing fast, sustained data transfer rates needed to deliver popular objects to end users at scale. CloudFront works seamlessly with Amazon S3, where users store the original versions of objects delivered through the service. Customers need only put their ...
Amazon Wants To Speed Up Your Site
Podcasting News —
Amazon today announced a new service, Amazon CloudFront, that promises to speed up your site.
It’s a simple pay-as-you-go content delivery network that offers to deliver your content to people, with Amazon-scale service, but without big upfront costs.
Amazon has a network of “edge” network locations that it can automatically distribute your content to. These “edge” locations are data hubs placed at optimal locations on the Internet in order to minimize the network latency and speed when ...
Amazon ‘CloudFront’ Promises Cheaper, Faster Downloads
Webmonkey —
... CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) and just might completely change the way your favorite sites deliver files and could make for a significantly faster web. CDNs are what very large sites (like the iTunes Store) use to make downloads much faster. ...
Amazon Expands Cloud For Content Delivery - Big Iron In The Cloud - Gotta Love This
Broadband Developments —
... to the content. High sustainable data transfer rates can be achieved with the service especially when distributing larger objects.
Amazon CloudFront will be useful for many different application scenarios such as giving your customers low-latency access to popular objects and protecting your site from popularity surges; other popular examples are low-cost delivery of rich media and sustainable fast transfer rates for software distributions.
See also the posting on the AWS Developer weblog and at Rightscale.
Amazon has seen success with the ...
Amazon's CDN Won't Hurt Akamai Or Limelight -- Not Yet, At Least
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Amazon (AMZN) announced the roll-out of its long-expected content delivery service, calling it "Cloudfront." One common reaction: The service will disrupt CDN leaders Akamai (AKAM) or Limelight (LLNW). Not immediately. ...
Microsoft, Amazon take different paths to cloud caching
All about Microsoft —
... ): a “cloud operating system” (Amazon’s EC2 and Microsoft’s Azure OS); the ability to host Windows apps/services on remote datacenter servers. Amazon launched last week a test version of its promised content delivery/caching service, known as CloudFront . CloudFront is designed to help speed up Amazon-hosted content served across a network of distributed datacenter servers. Microsoft, for its part, is building ...
SitePoint Podcast #3: A Richer Web?
SitePoint —
... Microsoft: 100 Million Silverlight Downloads in 4 Weeks (SitePoint)
Amazon Announces CloudFront: Affordable CDN Service (Amazon)
Adobe Debuts Flash Catalyst At MAX Conference (SitePoint)
Adobe: Demo video
Main Show Topic: Pros and Cons of Web Application deployment using Flash, Silverlight, etc.
Betanews: Novell and Microsoft sanction Silverlight workalike for Linux
Ars Technica: Adobe to Close Desktop-Mobile Flash Player Gap with ARM Port ...
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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront
allthingsdistributed.com 11/18/2008 —
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 ...
cloudfront Resources
updates.zdnet.com 11/18/2008 — ZDNet Resources Microsoft, Amazon take different paths to cloud caching Amazon and Microsoft, two of the leaders in the evolving cloud-services space, are offering customers a number of wares that -- at least on the surface -- sound similar. But in ...
Amazon’s CloudFront Could Storm Rival CDNs [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 11/18/2008 — 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 ...
Amazon launches content delivery network
news.cnet.com 11/18/2008 —
In conjunction with its S3 storage offering and other Web Services products, ever-expanding Web giant Amazon has launched a beta version of a content delivery network called CloudFront .
The service, which promises "low latency, high data ...
Amazon Kindle 2 coming in early 2009?
boygeniusreport.com 11/26/2008 —
It’s been almost two months since we scooped the Kindle 2 and since then, crickets. For those who need a quick recap, we’re talking about the sexied-up successor to Amazon’s popular Kindle eBook reader, set to further popularize ...
Amazon's Team of Rivals
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12/5/2008 — Amazon has done something improbable: it features direct competitors on its own site.
content delivery Resources
updates.zdnet.com 11/18/2008 — ZDNet Resources Microsoft, Amazon take different paths to cloud caching Amazon and Microsoft, two of the leaders in the evolving cloud-services space, are offering customers a number of wares that -- at least on the surface -- sound similar. But in ...
Is Amazon Ready For The Enterprise? [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 10/28/2008 — With a flurry of announcements in recent weeks , Amazon has extended its cloud computing lead. The beta label’s gone. It can run Windows applications. By investing in firms like Elastra , it’s tackling enterprise deployment. And there’s ...
Amazon.com Invades the Apple App Store
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12/3/2008 — Amazon's new iPhone app includes an "experimental" feature called Amazon Remembers that is designed to funnel sales from the offline world to the Internet.
Amazon Launches Experimental Mobile Shopping Feature -- Amazon.com -
informationweek.com 12/3/2008 — Amazon.com has launched on the Apple App Store an iPhone application that makes it possible to take a picture of a product and then send it to the online retailer, which will try to match it with products in its inventory. Amazon said its new mobile ...
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