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My cloud story is in Educause Quarterly
I’m honored that Educause has asked me to contribute a piece to the latest edition of Educause Quarterly about practical ways to use the cloud in web development in higher education. You can read it here. If you read this blog often or have seen me talk recently, you may have heard some of this [...]
Amazon Adds S3 to their Management Console (and why this is important)
One of the best features of Amazon’s cloud-based storage and content delivery service, Simple Storage Service (S3), is it’s API. They’ve made it very easy to place, delete and share files from a variety of platforms. For the majority of work I do in S3, I use Panic’s excellent FTP-and-then-some client, Transmit. It treats S3′s [...]
Amazon Lowers Outgoing Bandwidth Pricing
Amazon has reduced the cost of bandwidth served out by its various web services, including S3, EC2 and their CloudFront content delivery network. Prices now start at $0.15 USD per GB for the first 10TB. This is down from $0.17USD per GB before. New prices for everything but CloudFront look like this now: Level Old [...]
