Amazon CDN stumbled, but recovered, in time for Black Friday
The week in cloud: An AWS CloudFront CDN issue snagged some websites on Thanksgiving Eve.
BBC uses “collateral freedom” system to bypass Chinese censorship
The campaign group Greatfire.org says it is sneaking Chinese-language BBC content behind the Great Firewall using its CDN-based mirror site approach.
Cedexis adds prettier — and more insightful — pictures to its cloud watching service
If you want to drill down into how your web site is performing based on user device, ISP, geography, or any combination of those things, Cedexis has a service for you.
Rackspace: Hey Amazon, we can cut prices too
Rackspace, perhaps deviating from its “fanatical support mantra” is cutting prices on its CDN services and rolling out a new tiered price structure for other services
Amazon makes it cheaper to move your stuff between regions
If you thought Amazon Web Services would stop churning out new features and cutting prices on older ones, you have another think coming.
Amazon moves freak out partners and rivals alike
Amazon’s Eucalyptus deal, which gives it a better hybrid cloud story and solidifies the dominance of the AWS API, plus the ever-growing AWS feature set, aren’t necessarily all good news to PaaS and other partners that run their services on Amazon infrastructure.
Fyels Debuts Unlimited Twitter File Sharing
Fyels just launched a new service for file sharing through Twitter, and it comes with almost no strings attached: The service offers unlimited, free and ad-free storage, and files can be as large as 9 GB each. Almost sounds to good to be true, doesn’t it?
Today in Cloud
Amazon Web Services today rolled out the latest in a long line of incremental enhancements; CloudFormation. The new feature makes it reasonably straightforward to assemble a bundle of resources and configuration parameters into a ‘stack’ which can be deployed when required. Amazon’s Jeff Barr illustrates this with a very simple example, assembling Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, auto scaling, security groups, Relational Database Service (RDS) instances and more to get WordPress installed and running. This is a welcome move forward, but hardly ground-breaking. As we’ve discussed before, companies from JumpBox and Bitnami to RightScale and enStratus make their living by simplifying use of infrastructure Clouds like Amazon’s. Their value proposition became a little less clear this morning.