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Launched in 1997 Netflix is the leading internet subscription service with 23.6 million users in the US and Canada paying $7.99USD per month to watch as many TV programmes and films as they want
Read More »AWS adds SMTP support for Amazon Simple Email Service
Until now, sending email using Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) required writing code or using software that specifically supported SES. That’s changed with SES now supporting the ubiquitous SMTP protocol. SMTP is used by most
Read More »Amazon SNS does SMS
Amazon SNS allows developers to send messages from applications and systems on a pay-what-you-use basis. As for pricing, sending via SMS is the most expensive option within Amazon SNS: although the first 100 SMS messages are
Read More »Oracle delivers free Amazon Machine Images
Oracle has made available a set of free Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), to facilitate deploying Oracle solutions on Amazon EC2. Oracle customers can licence Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Enterprise Manager
Read More »Micro On-Demand instances for Amazon EC2
Amazon have announced Micro On-Demand instances for Amazon EC2. Pricing starts at $0.02 per hour for Linux and $0.03 per hour for Windows and the instances are available immediately in all regions. Micro On-Demand
Read More »Amazon Web Services opens first Asia Pacific Region
Amazon Web Services launches its first Asia Pacific Region in Singapore
Read More »Single sign-on to Amazon EC2-based .Net applications from an on-premises Windows domain guide released
An Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corporation sponsored step by step guide demonstrating identity federation between an on-premise Windows Server Active Directory domain and an ASP.NET web application hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud
Read More »Amazon Relational Database Service Available in Europe
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Until now, Amazon RDS has been located in
Read More »Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Amazon have released Amazon Simple Notification Service to beta. Amazon SNS provides developers with a highly scalable, flexible, and cost-effective capability to publish messages from an application and immediately deliver them to subscribers or
Read More »Windows Server Pilot Available in Amazon Cloud
Is the announcement by the Amazon EC2 Cloud Service of the immediate availability of the Microsoft Windows Server® License Mobility Pilot evidence that there is an increasing amount of flexibility in licensing terms in
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