Amazon AWS
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 Price
New Price
First 10 [...]
Amazon Launches MySQL In The Cloud
Amazon has launched a new web service – dubbed Amazon Relational Database Service. With it, you can easily port your MySQL databases to this service.
From their website:
Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing [...]
IWMW Amazon Web Services Session
I attended the Institutional Web Management Workshop last week, held at the University of Essex in Colchester, England. It was a really great conference, with very nice web people from all over the UK sharing ideas, frustrations, successes and more.
I presented a BarCamp session about some trends in US higher education web development and a [...]




