AWS user Bob Wise (VP of Engineering for Melodeo, producer of nuTsie) asked me to pass along some information about his upcoming session at the BlackBerry Developer Conference (November 9-12 in San Francisco). Here's the scoop: Developers who...

I was checking out the archive for this blog and realized that I wrote my first post exactly five years ago! In that time I've written posts to introduce each of our new services. Here's a quick recap of the highlights: We started out with the...

In many cases, scaling out (by launching additional instances) is the best way to bring additional CPU processing power and memory to bear on a problem, while also distributing network traffic across multiple NICs (Network Interface Controllers)....

Effective November 1, 2009, the following per-hour prices will be in effect for Amazon EC2:   US EU   Linux Windows SQL Linux Windows SQL m1.small $0.085 $0.12   $0.095 $0.13   ...

We are always looking for ways to make it faster, simpler, and more fun to develop applications of all types. Every hour that you don't spend fiddling with hardware, tracing cables, installing operating systems or managing databases is an hour that you...