Cloud Hosting Mag

A persistent issue with Amazon’s CloudFront is the lack of analytics available – what’s the point of hosting your video on CloudFront when you can’t tell if anyone watched it or if user’s quit after the first 3 seconds. Today’s announcement of streaming access logs goes some way to address this. Amazon will now log all streaming [...]

Amazon today announced the Beta of its SNS (Simple Notification Service) service. SNS is a “push” messaging service for delivering real-time notifications to subscribers. Amazon already offers a non-push messaging service (SQS) which is primarily used for distributed applications to communicate. SQS messages are persisted in a queue so that other connected applications can ‘poll’ [...]

Microsoft and Amazon announced Windows License Mobility which allows enterprise license holders to migrate their licenses to Amazon’s EC2 instances. The program is currently running only as a pilot and Microsoft only allows the license to be used for Windows EC2 instances for a period of one year. After one year (if the program is [...]

Akamai, the leading CDN vendor, just announced the introduction of the Akamai Download Analytics. Getting useful data on files served over CDN’s has long been a pain-point for CDN users. Akamai Download Analytics hopes to address this by providing the following types of analytics: User engagement data such as download duration and completion rate. User [...]

Rackspace just announced that its offer Oracle on its Cloud Servers product. AWS has had Oracle offerings for some time now and the announcement by Rackspace is clearly a move into the enterprise market which is a major target of AWS. No word on pricing as yet as this is still in Beta – see [...]

Great video from James Hamilton of AWS demonstrating the eocnomics of data centers and cloud computing. Ever wonder where the cost is consumed or why cloud computing is more efficient. Did you know that power is only 13% of the cost of running a data center but it is the key reason that Amazon decided [...]