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Price Spikes Impact Amazon Spot Cloud Market
December 28th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Bidding for unused capacity on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing platform has become more competitive, causing periodic price spikes in the spot market Amazon has created. Read More
Amazon Expands its Cloud to South America
December 15th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Amazon Web Services has expanded its cloud computing platform to South America with the addition of data center infrastructure in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Read More
Amazon Turns on its New Cloud in Oregon
November 9th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Amazon Web Services announced today that it is now serving its data from servers in Oregon, where the company has been building several data centers. The new data center capacity has allowed Amazon to create a second availability zone in the US-West region. Read More
Amazon’s John Rauser: What is a Data Scientist?
October 14th, 2011 : Colleen Miller
John Rauser, a principal engineer at Amazon, discusses careers in big data at the O'Reilly Strata Conference. Rauser shares the story of the world's first data scientist and then his own 18-year career journey from software engineering to data scientist. Read More
Amazon Provides More Details on Dublin Outage
August 15th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Amazon Web Services has released a detailed incident report on last week's data center outage in Dublin. Amazon outlined steps it would take to address the issues, and announced a 10-day service credit for all customers that were affected. Read More
Equinix Offers Direct Connect to Amazon Cloud
August 4th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Colocation customers in Equinix data centers can now connect their infrastructure directly to Amazon Web Services via AWS Direct Connect, establishing a private network connection that can reduce network costs and increase throughput. Read More
Amazon Slashes Cloud Data Transfer Fees
July 1st, 2011 : Rich Miller
On Thursday Amazon Web Services announced that it was eliminating fees for inbound data transfer (uploads) and reducing fees for outbound data transfer (delivery). Here's a roundup of analysis and commentary from around the Web. Read More
Amazon Deploying Containers in Oregon
June 20th, 2011 : Rich Miller
A subsidiary of Amazon.com has deployed six data center modules at a project in Umatilla, Oregon, local media reported this week. It is one of three Oregon sites where Amazon has filed building plans. Read More
A Look Inside Amazon’s Data Centers
June 9th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Amazon.com held a technology open house this week, where Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton discussed the company's infrastructure, including a modular data center design used by Amazon. Read More