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Welcome to Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon's robust technology platform. Build on Amazon's suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications. We innovate for you, so that you can innovate for your customers. Browse developer innovations in our Solutions Catalog to see the possibilities!

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Amazon EC2: Now in Unlimited Beta and Launching New Instance Types (October 16, 2007)
The Amazon EC2 Beta is now open to all developers and any developer can sign up to start using Amazon EC2 today. Additionally, Amazon EC2 has launched "Large" and "Extra Large" instance types to provide more memory, CPU, and instance storage, and are based on 64bit technology. The Large Instance is equivalent to roughly four Small Instances (original instance), and the Extra Large Instance is roughly equivalent to eight Small Instances. This was a popular request from customers that we're very happy to address with this release. Read more details about these Instances.

Announcing "AWS Start-Up Challenge": Win $100,000 Plus an Investment Offer From Amazon (September 12, 2007)
AWS has launched the AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest for entrepreneurs and software developers that will award the winner $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, an investment offer from Amazon.com, and more.

Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) - Limited Beta (August 2, 2007)
Amazon Web Services has opened a limited beta of Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS). Amazon FPS is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers. The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon's reliable and scalable payment infrastructure. Learn more about this new service.



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In the News

BungeeLabs launches Amazon FPS Library (October 22, 2007)
Get started with Amazon Flexible Payments Service using the new library and Bungee Connect, a 100% web-based development environment.

RightScale wins 'Best in Show' at VentureNet (October 22, 2007)
RightScale is named "company to watch" by a committee of venture capital investors for their management platform built on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

AWS Update at Web 2.0 Summit (October 18, 2007)
Amazon Web Services Vice President Adam Selipsky spoke at Web 2.0 Summit about the latest things happening in AWS.

WordPress using Amazon S3 (October 9, 2007)
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg states on his blog that WordPress is now using Amazon S3 as its primary storage.

Students Learn Cloud Computing (October 8, 2007)
Phil Windley gives his students at Brigham Young University hands-on experience using Amazon EC2, SQS and S3.



 

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