AWS Week in Review - August 20th to August 26th , 2012

 

Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday, August 20	AWS released Amazon Glacier, archival storage for one penny per Gigabyte per month.
Tuesday, August 21	Amazon DynamoDB now supports storage and retrieval of binary data. AWS released AWS Cost Allocation for customer bills.
Wednesday, August 22	You can now launch EC2 Cluster Compute Instances in the US West (Oregon) region.
Thursday, August 23	Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent.
Friday, August 24	This week, AWS continued to add many new products to AWS Marketplace, including two AMI-deployable CloudOptimizer products from CloudOpt Incorporated, and SaaS products Docunym, HotRiot Web Application Development Engine, Bias, and Insight. AWS is also excited to welcome our first South American vendor to AWS Marketplace, Artsoft Sistemas, who listed two versions of Fenicia this week.

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AWS Week in Review - August 27th to September 2nd , 2012

Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday, August 27	New AWS Report interview, Chris Wheeler discusses the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES).
Friday, August 31	Amazon S3 now supports Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). AWS Evangelist Joe Ziegler uploaded a new presentation, Enterprise Journey to the Cloud. New AWS Report interview, Todd Fassulo of Smartsheet.

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AWS Report with Michael Kellen of Sage Bionetworks

Michael Kellen, Director of Technology of Sage Bionetworks, talks about how Sage Bionetworks, a non-profit organization that help medical research analyze data is using AWS to save costs, allowing them to focus on their core business. 

 Really interesting use of Amazon S3, Elastic Beanstalk, and the Simple Workflow Service. 

Amazon S3 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing Support

GREAT NEWS!!!

AWS has announced support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Amazon S3.

You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in Amazon S3, enabling you to implement HTML5 drag and drop uploads to Amazon S3, show upload progress, or update content. Until now, you needed to run a custom proxy server between your web application and Amazon S3 to support these capabilities. A custom proxy server was required because web browsers limit the way web pages loaded from one site (e.g., mywebsite.com) can interact with content from another location (e.g., a location in Amazon S3 like assets.mywebsite.com.s3.amazonaws.com). Amazon S3’s support for CORS replaces the need for this custom proxy server by instructing the web browser to selectively enable these cross-site interactions.

Configuring your bucket for CORS is easy. To get started, open the Amazon S3 Management Console, and follow these simple steps:

1) Right click on your Amazon S3 bucket and open the “Properties” pane.
2) Under the “Permissions” tab, click the “Add CORS configuration” button to add a new CORS configuration. You can then specify the websites (e.g., "mywebsite.com”) that should have access to your bucket, and the specific HTTP request methods (e.g., “GET”) you wish to allow.
3) Click Save.

For more information on using CORS with Amazon S3, review the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.