Feed: Amazon Web Services Blog - AggScore: 63.5

Pulse – Using Big Data Analytics to Drive Rich User Features

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Our application relies on accurately analyzing client event logs (as opposed to web logs) to extract trends and enable other rich features for our users. To give you a sense of the scale at which we run these analyses, we literally go through millions of events per hour, which translates to as many as 250+ Amazon Elastic MapReduce nodes on any given day. Since we are dealing with event logs, generated by our users from the various platforms on which they access our app (Android, iPhone, iPad, etc.), our logs grow in proportion to our user base.

Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs...

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Earlier today, GigaOM published a cost comparison of self-hosting vs. hosting on AWS. I wanted to bring to your attention a few quick issues that we saw with this analysis: Lower Costs in Other AWS Regions - The comparison used...

Amazon S3 Price Reduction

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As you can tell from my recent post on Amazon S3 Growth for 2011, our customers are uploading new objects to Amazon S3 at an incredible rate. We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down storage costs and...

Amazon DynamoDB - Two Videos and a Webinar

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We launched Amazon DynamoDB with a live video feed that was very well-attended. If you didn't get a chance to watch at the time, you can do so now: You may also enjoy this short video featuring Werner Vogels, James...

Amazon CloudFront: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Making Plans

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Looking Back In 2011 we added a total of seven edge locations to Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. We also added lots of new features, as I documented last year. Looking Forward Our newest edge locations are located in Milan,...

New Elastic MapReduce Features: Metrics, Updates, VPC, and Cluster Compute Support (Guest Post)

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Today's guest blogger is Adam Gray. Adam is a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team. -- Jeff; We’re always excited when we can bring features to our customers that make it easier for them to derive value from their...

Amazon S3 Growth for 2011 - Now 762 Billion Objects

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As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times. Here's the annual growth chart: This represents year-over-year growth of 192%; S3...

New AWS Premium Support Features: Third-Party Software Support and AWS Trusted Advisor

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We have added two new benefits to the Gold and Platinum levels of AWS Premium Support. The following features are now in beta testing: We now offer third-party support for popular operating systems running on Amazon EC2. We also support...

New Tagging for Auto Scaling Groups

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You can now add up to 10 tags to any of your Auto Scaling Groups. You can also, if you'd like, propagate the tags to the EC2 instances launched from your groups. Adding tags to your Auto Scaling groups will...

AWS HowTo: Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce with DynamoDB (Guest Post)

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Today's guest blogger is Adam Gray. Adam is a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team. -- Jeff; Apache Hadoop and NoSQL databases are complementary technologies that together provide a powerful toolbox for managing, analyzing, and monetizing Big Data. That’s...