Monday 10 September 2012

Building Highly Available, Scalable Web Properties with AWS

From the AWS Webinar Series: Building Highly Available, Scalable Web Properties with AWS 

A very nicely compiled webinar for understand various AWS Services and design principles.

This webinar recording focuses on basic properities for Building Highly Available, Scalable Web Applications on AWS Cloud.

These properties are:

  • Elasticity
  • Design for Failure
  • Loose Coupling
  • Security
  • Performance
 


Saturday 8 September 2012

The AWS Report - Colin Lazier, Amazon Glacier

Want to know what Amazon's new service Glacier is and how people are using it?

Check out the new AWS Report with Colin Lazier.

For today's episode of The AWS Report, I spoke to Colin Lazier, a Senior Development Manager on the AWS Storage Team. Colin and I talked about Amazon Glacier and how it can be used to archive data for long periods of time. I learned that Glacier uses anti-entropy techniques to guard against data loss. 
We also talked about Glacier's retrieval model, and our expectation that third parties will build archiving and indexing tools around Glacier's storage and retrieval functions.




Friday 7 September 2012

Infographic : How much do Apple, Google and Amazon spend on advertising?


Last year, U.S. tech company advertisers continued to increase ad and promo spending so much so that Google, Amazon and Apple are listed among the six companies with the highest ad-spending growth rates. Please have a look at the complete list with a more detailed breakdown o


Tech Company Ad Spends
SOURCE : OnlineBusinessDegree.org