“Amazon.com has confirmed that a major data center under construction on the Columbia River in Oregon belongs to the company. Work at the site, however, has quietly come to a halt. Until now, Amazon’s involvement in the data center project at the Port of Morrow, a 9,000-acre industrial complex in Boardman, Ore., has been largely [...]
Last week when the world was busy with the release of Java support to Google App Engine, Amazon added several enhancements to its Simple Queue Service (SQS) which are mentioned below:
1. Added ability to share queues, including support for anonymous access.
2. Added Policy as a value for the Attribute.
3. Changed the global reference in the [...]
Amazon announced that it will offer the ability to deploy Microsoft Windows Server and MS SQL Server on Amazon EC2. This has multiple implications:
1. Having the ability to run Microsoft on EC2 would accelerate the enterprise adoption of cloud computing especially favoring Amazon EC2.
2. Running MS Windows Server would bring Windows based development [...]