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 [...]

For the past six months I have used Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3) to store all the newly uploaded images on my WordPress installations and it works like a snap. But why should you host all your images on S3 when your can simply upload them to your own hosting account? There are several reasons [...]