Posts Tagged with ‘Amazon-S3’

Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks reports that Amazon has published an announcement regarding last weekend's outage of Amazon S3 services. For those of you who were neither affected, nor cared, I'd want to remind that S3 is Amazon's service that provides hosting and storage for web applications - to a certain extent for free. And last weekend the service experienced an outage of the whole 8 hours - and that with very poor communication on behalf of the [...]

I don't usually pimp promos, but I know that I'm not the only one who wants a MacBook Air just to slide it in and out of an envelope all day long, so I figured I could bundle up the giveaway announcement with a product review.
The Tech Brief is partnering with SugarSync in giving away a free MacBook Air, and entering the contest is pretty simple: subscribe to The Tech Brief email newsletter, and then sign up for a free [...]

Last night, when the news of Google App Engine hit the web, I was hobbled with DNS issues that left me able to watch the Twitter stream but unable to read any of the details. Waking up this morning and finding all the Twitterati still throwing confetti, I'm starting to feel that I'm a lone dissenter when I say that I don't think Google App Engine is going to be good for the Web.
Just yesterday, Hank Williams followed up his [...]

Before I begin detailing the latest travesty in high-speed highway robbery, I need to disclose that I have been a Time Warner high-speed customer since they first did a beta program in my area. I remained loyal even when DSL arrived, for far less money than what I pay for my high-speed cable connection. And I've encouraged countless others to ditch their dial-up to move to Time Warner's services.
Hopefully, my long history as an evangelist of their services will explain [...]