Amazon Cloud Journal
Today Amazon released its answer to SQL Azure, the hosted cloud database
offered by Microsoft. The newest service form Amazon, the Amazon Relational
Database Service, or Amazon RDS for short, now in beta, makes it easier for
you to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. You get
direct database access without worrying about infrastructure provisioning,
software maintenance, or common database management tasks.
Using the RDS APIs or the command-line tools, you can access the full
capabilities of a complete, self-contained MySQL 5.1 database instance in a
matter of minutes. You can scale the processing power and storage space as
needed with a single API call and you can initiate fully consistent database
snapshots at any time.
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Until this week, using the Windows Azure CTP meant signing up and then
waiting a couple of days for an invitation code to arrive by email. No more.
You can now register for access and receive an invitation code right there on
the spot. No email, no waiting, no excuses.
Go register now and build something cool!
(Via Steve Marx.)
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Alin Irimie's Azure Blog
After more than two “azure” months, with lots of new stuff to learn, a
whole new alphabet soup to digest and a dozen or so Microsoft evangelists
trying to navigate us through the plethora of “cloud services” that seem
to pop up every day from Microsoft’s software-making machine, I believe
something is not right with with the way the information is presented to the ... (more)
Microsoft just announced the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) to
deliver Windows Azure Blob content. Windows Azure CDN offers developers a
global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content.
Windows Azure CDN has 18 locations globally (United States, Europe, Asia,
Australia and South America) and continues to expand. Windows Azure CDN
caches your Windows Azure blobs at str... (more)
Azure Cloud on Ulitzer
PDC 2009 is an exciting event the Windows Azure community. Microsoft will
begin the Windows Azure platform transition from a CTP to business. For your
planning purposes, this post maps out the key stages of that transition that
you should be aware of.
At PDC 2009, on November 17th, 2009, a number of new features in Windows
Azure will be made available for the first... (more)