Amazon has launched a beta version of Kindle App for BlackBerry devices. With this App BlackBerry users will be able to get access to 400,000 Kindle books and if you are already having a Kindle account then you also get access to your Kindle books on to your BlackBerry device. With this App BlackBerry users can automatically synchronizes their last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync.
Kindle App Supported BlackBerry Devices
Type amazon.com/kindlebb" into your BlackBerry browser to download Kindle BlackBerry App
Amazon has released AWS solution pages. Pages are divided in Application Hosting , Backup Storage , Content Delivery , E-Commerce Applications , Enterprise IT , HPC Applications , Media Hosting , Search Engines , Web Hosting , iPhone Application Hosting and Facebook Application Hosting categories. Each page identifies the challenges inherent in the use case, highlights the ways that AWS can be put to use, identifies the benefits of using AWS, and links to appropriate resources.
Application Hosting
Backup Storage
Content Delivery
E-Commerce Applications
Enterprise IT
HPC Applications
Media Hosting
Search Engines
Web Hosting
iPhone Application Hosting
Facebook Application Hosting
Now it is possible for .Net Developers to create AWS Applications using .Net because Amazon has released a SDK for Microsoft .Net. AWS SDK allow developers to build solutions for AWS infrastructure services, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon SimpleDB.
To get started with AWS SDK you must have .Net Framework 2.0 or later.
Features
The AWS .NET SDK features:
- AWS .NET Library – Build .NET applications on top of APIs that take the complexity out of coding directly against web services interfaces. The all-in-one library provides .NET developer-friendly APIs that hide much of the lower-level plumbing associated with programming for the AWS cloud, including authentication, request retries, and error handling.
- Code Samples – Practical examples in C# for how to use the libraries to build applications.
- Documentation – Learn more about how to use the libraries and code samples with online video tutorials and reference documentation.
- Visual Studio Support – Get started quickly with building solutions for the AWS cloud using Visual Studio Project Templates.
Supported Services
The AWS SDK for .NET supports the AWS infrastructure products, including:
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- Amazon SimpleDB
- Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
- Amazon CloudFront
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
- Amazon Elastic MapReduce
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Elastic Load Balancing
- Auto Scaling
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Uploading data from hard drive to any online backup service will take significant amount of time, to solve this problem Amazon has come up with solution called Import/Export Backup means Amazon S2 and S3 users can ship their hard drive to Amazon and Amazon will upload the data onto their servers. Uploading data to Amazon S3 servers is not a big issue if you have a high speed internet connection while some of these data sets would take weeks or months to upload. For example, it would take over 80 days to upload just 1TB of data over a T1 connection.
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Amazon announced that they are in the process of changing Amazon Associate referral program. Amazon will no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines, and their extended search networks.
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IBM and Amazon teamed up for providing pay-as-you-go IBM development and production versions of IBM Information Management database servers, IBM Lotus content management, and IBM WebSphere portal and middleware products, all running on Novell’s SUSE Linux on Amazon EC2. Developers can also use their existing licenses of IBM software with Amazon cloud computing platform. IBM Passport Advantage Customers can install and run IBM Programs in the Amazon EC2 cloud environment using Program licenses obtained from IBM on a Processor Value Unit (PVU) basis. The table below lists the number of PVU licenses required per IBM Program for each Amazon EC2 Instance Type currently available as of the table publish date. Charges for the Amazon Web Services EC2 service are separate and remain the responsibility of the customer.
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Web technology consultant and developer Brett O’Connor has released a complete article how BitTorrent users can setup a BitTorrent client over the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform. Amazon EC2 offers a powerful cloud computing platform mainly for Rich Internet Application developer and also Amazon EC2 is also offer a greater bandwidth and computing power as compare to other traditional hosting providers. This might be a good idea to move BitTorrent Client to Amazon EC2.
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Amazon.com has announced that its applications are available for iPhone and iPod touch on the Apple App Store. Its a advantage for Amazon to use iPhone platform to make it easier for people to order products from them. The Amazon app is available free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/
The Amazon application features are-
- Provides an easy way to search and browse for Amazon products
- Provides thousands of retailers like Target and Macy’s
- Provides access to Amazon’s popular shopping features like Customer Reviews
- Provides a unique way to purchase using 1-Click Shopping and Amazon Prime
- Also adds a feature called “Amazon Remembers”
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Amazon’s database service that is SimpleDB is now available for unlimited beat testing. SimpleDB provides an ability to store, process and query data in cloud based environment. SimpleDB works in conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The company has announced that
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on 18th Amazon has launched a beta version of a content delivery network called CloudFront. Its a pay-as-you-go service in the same pattern as the other Amazon Web Services are available. CloudFront gives end users low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. Amazon’s CloudFront uses Global Network of edge location that is requests are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so end users get content with best possible performance. CloudFront uses Amazon’s existing cloud infrastructure to deliver HTTP content through a worldwide network of edge locations like US, Europe and Asia. Amazon CloudFront works seamlessly with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
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