The following email was sent to Amazon Web Services customers on 4/23/08 announcing the new pricing structure for data transfers

Dear Amazon Web Services developers,
We’ve often told you that one of our goals is to drive down costs continuously and to pass those savings on to you. We have been able to reduce our costs for [...]

Amazon announced today, via an email to its EC2 subscribers, that they are working on a persistent storage feature for their EC2 service. It seems that it would be implemented as an attached volume to your EC2 instance. It will behave like an unformatted hard drive or block device. There will also be tools to [...]

The rumors are true. You can now share videos on Flickr… that is if you are a Pro member. Also the video’s must be 90 seconds or less. Check this sample…

If you interested in killing a little title with Flickrs new video feature then check out the Fridgets group. Whats Fridgets [...]

App Engine is a system for running applications on Googles infrastructure. It DOES NOT emulate a virtual system like EC2. Because of this, you have to follow Google rules for application development:

Current Python only
A YAML based app config file allows you to provide meta data about the app and do URL to “action” mapping
Most [...]