Posts Tagged with ‘Amazon-Web-Services’

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 [...]

First came the Tweets: is such-and-such down? Can anyone else get into Google App Engine? Then came the blog posts and the endless discussion of "giving up your app to the cloud."
The simple fact is that web sites will go down. All web sites will fail to work at some point, because 100% uptime just doesn't exist. Software will be buggy. Hardware will fail. And the best anyone can hope for is that the site is large enough and [...]

I am in love.
I realize that most of the apps that I absolutely go nuts over tend to have nice visuals. Use those nice visuals as an overlay on something I'm already loving and you just may have yourselves a hit. I'm a big Amazon fan, but I never browse there; I visit the site for specific things and then buy them. I may look at the suggestions they give once I've added an item to my cart, but even [...]

It appears that cloud computing is the latest Web 2.0 technology under fire in the blogosphere, but of all the tech that's come out of this whole new way of doing things, I'd place my bets on cloud computing being around past anything else that falls.
Steven Hodson at WinExtra had a great breakdown of the major players in the space, but I disagreed with his concerns about security. He referenced the amount of data that can be stolen during a [...]

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 [...]

PayPal has been down for two days. TWO DAYS. The PayPal development blog gives Wednesday or THURSDAY as an estimate of when the service might be back to functioning normally: an estimate of 6 or 7 days without service, which includes bringing subscription payments to a halt, actually, a good percentage of payment transactions to a halt.
I'm sure that after such an extended outage, developers are quickly going to be looking for alternate payment methods. Having put their eggs in [...]

AdKafe.com announced the launch of a new service where consumers design the ads for marketers. The innovative site allows users to create designs that will benefit both marketers and designers. According to the release, designers will have direct access to the creative minds of the world.
The service brings ad seekers and ad designers closer by utilizing the power of collaboration on the Internet. Companies seeking advertisements benefit by tapping into the world's creative minds and make purchases only after viewing [...]