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Amazon Gets Serious About AWS, Adds Premium Support
Written by Josh Catone / April 17, 2008 9:25 AM / 1 Comments
Amazon today announced premium for-pay support packages for some of its core infrastructure services. The Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Simple Queue Service (SQS) each received Continue reading »


Amazon's Other Service: A Virtual Sweatshop? Actually, No
Written by Josh Catone / March 28, 2008 12:23 PM / 6 Comments
Amazon's web services get a ton of press, but mostly in the context of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the Simple Storage Service (S3), SimpleDB or one of the company's Continue reading »


Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds
Written by Alex Iskold / February 18, 2008 1:20 PM / 17 Comments
On Friday, a massive outage occured at Amazon Web Services that generated a wave of negativity and criticism in the blogosphere. Not long ago, Rackspace, one of the world's largest Continue reading »


Is the iPhone the Ultimate eBook Reader?
Written by Josh Catone / February 14, 2008 11:44 AM / 26 Comments
"People don’t read anymore," said Steve Jobs last month. Try telling that to users of his company's iPhone and iPod Touch devices, many of whom seem to be using the Continue reading »


Amazon Web Services: Bigger Than Amazon
Written by Josh Catone / January 30, 2008 6:32 PM / 6 Comments
Web retailer Amazon announced their fourth quarter earnings today and included some interesting figures on the state of their distributed computing products. Namely, web services bandwidth now accounts for more Continue reading »


Amazon Looks to Crowd to Find Next Bestseller
Written by Josh Catone / January 18, 2008 8:29 AM / 3 Comments
Amazon is entering the second leg of their Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and they're calling on Amazon customers to help them decide which unpublished author scores the grand prize that Continue reading »


Only 7 Remain: Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge Ends This Week
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 3, 2007 11:08 PM / 8 Comments
Amazon Web Services, a fascinating division of the company offering a collection of commodity computing services, data storage and more - all sold in the cloud - is about to Continue reading »


Amazon to Give Away 1 Billion Free MP3s in Superbowl Promotion
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 30, 2007 11:52 AM / 5 Comments
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/Amazon_to_Give_Away_1_Billion_Free_MP3s_in_Superbowl_Promotion'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Billboard magazine has done some fine sleuthing and turned up a number of developments in the works that may push


Amazon Sets eBook World Alight with Kindle - Finally, Time For Read/Write Books!
Written by Richard MacManus / November 18, 2007 7:52 PM / 15 Comments
I used to write a blog about ebooks - some of you may remember eBook Culture (alas I let the domain name slip and so it was gobbled up by Continue reading »


Amazon Opens Affiliate Access to MP3, Unbox, OpenSocial and RSS
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 14, 2007 9:00 PM / 3 Comments
Update: Since the publication of this post, Amazon's PR people have contacted me a number of times to request that we remove this coverage based on a draft press Continue reading »


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