One Week Later on Amazon Web Services

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corpblog.helpstream.biz - 12/8/2008

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Saturday marks the one week anniversary of moving the Helpstream application out of our data center and on to Amazon Web Services . I’m happy to report that it has gone even better than smoothly. Various customers are reporting that it has enhanced our performance as well. I attribute ...

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business.timesonline.co.uk - 12/16/2008

Revealed: Amazon staff punished for being ill

— business.timesonline.co.uk — Amazon, Britain s most popular website for Christmas shopping, is making its staff work seven days a week and threatening them with the sack if they take time off sick. The company charges among the lowest prices for products ranging from books and ... (more) Revealed: Amazon staff punished for being ill

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mediamemo.allthingsd.com - 12/15/2008

Amazon’s MP3 Store, One Year In: No iTunes Killer; Probably Won’t Be

— mediamemo.allthingsd.com — Amazon has been selling digital music from all the big music labels for nearly a year now. It hasn't changed Apple's grip on that business in any way, and it hasn't made any money for Amazon. But don't write it off as a failure just yet. (more) Amazon’s MP3 Store, One Year In: No iTunes Killer; ...

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olpcnews.com - 12/15/2008

Breaking News: Amazon UK May Cancel G1G1 Global Orders!! - One Laptop Per Child News

— olpcnews.com — Heads up to European Give 1 Get 1 donors! Amazon.co.uk may be canceling your G1G1 Global purchase because OLPC is talking too long to ship your XO laptop. Via OLPC News Forum , here is the Amazon.co.uk email being sent out : Dear Donor: The following ... (more) Breaking News: Amazon UK May Cancel G1G1 Global Orders!! ...

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One Week Later on Amazon Web Services
SmoothSpan Blog — ... for a week and we’re very happy with the result–it’s better, faster, and cheaper. We’ve gotten a more robust system for our multitenant SaaS application that’s actually cheaper and easier for us. Customers are reporting that the application even seems faster than it had been. The effort involved was not too bad, though we did go through a multi-stage process before committing everything to Amazon. I’ve chronicled that process on our corporate blog if you’re interested in seeing how such transitions are done. ...

Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint
Between the Lines — ... , his corporate blog and to the Enterprise Irregular mailing list. On Tuesday, Warfield, along with Helpstream CTO Dan Hardy and other executives, hosted a call walking me and Tom Foydel ( ...

Cloud Computing Keiretsu: VMWare + Elastra, Amazon + RightScale + EngineYard
SmoothSpan Blog — ... The Pure Cloud is the Amazon-style market. It offers generic Cloud Infrastructure to all comers. It’s Cloud as a Service, and is analagous to the Software as a Service world. This world keeps costs extremely low and relies mostly on Open Source software (e.g. Xen Hypervisor) and internally developed software (S3 or Elastic Block Store) to keep the costs low. The model works great at delivering very low costs. My company, Helpstream, saved a bundle recently by switching. ...