Tag: EC2

When Amazon Appstore for Android launched last week, one of its primary features -- Test Drive -- was disabled just a few minutes after it opened. With no try-before-you-buy, no refund process, and 1-Click purchasing ready to strike at any moment, this caused some problems. Anyway, don't despair: Test Drive is now enabled. Before you get your hopes up, Test Drive doesn't work with every app. ...

You've probably heard all about Google's shipping container server farm. Over capacity? Just plug in another container! Now you, as an end user, can enjoy a similar service direct from NASA itself. NASA's Nebula platform provides a cloud of processing power much like that of Amazon's EC2. A brief look at the details of NASA's cloud suggest that this is a much more low-level solution: while ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gave the keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, outlining some next-gen focus of Amazons suite of Web Services. So whats in store for the shopping portal? Bezos and his team are pushing hard on the family of Amazon Web Service API's that includes the S3 storage API, EC2 computer services and the Simple Queue Service. Bezos also mentioned that Amazon is working on other API's in the ...

Amazon has just launched Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2), a "Tier 0" service in the same vein as S3 (Simple Storage Service, launched earlier this year), but for processing power instead of storage. Amazon describes EC2 as "a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud ... designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers." Developers can run anything they want on ...