Amazon held another event focused on educating start-ups and existing tech companies about their web services offerings and how to integrate them into they current (or new) businesses. I attended a similar event previously at Mezzanine in SF, but this time around we’re in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel (near Union Square).
So far I would estimate around 90 – 95% males, and perhaps even a higher than SF-usual ratio of about 90% Mac laptops in use. (more…)
“Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon’s EC2.”
“10gen is a new platform-as-a-service technology designed to help developers quickly and easily build dynamic, scalable, mission critical web sites and applications.”
Awesome list of tools and techniques for working with S3
Awesome Perl app which will update dynamic DNS information with DynDNS in an environment where your IP isn’t static (EC2?)
Intelligent online task management | Smartsheet.com
Interesting take on project management. Basically a souped-up spreadsheet with users, date selection, powerful reporting etc. Apparently uses EC2 and S3 to power it.
OpenFount – Distributed, local filesystem
Interesting tools based on Amazon Web Services. Especially the distributed, multi-access local filesystem using FUSE, backed into S3.
PHP code for dealing with Amazon Web Services!
Amazon Web Services has created an exciting platform for deploying web applications based on Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service. If you are considering using EC2 and S3, AWS-Console will make your life easy.
WeoCEO – Easy to Use. EC2 Love.
Amazon EC2 load balancer which automatically requests and kills new instances based on load.