Posts Tagged ‘amazon cloud’

Free Cloud Music

Monday, April 4th, 2011

The Amazon Cloud Music platform allows you to get 5gb free cloud music for your existing music collection for streaming cloud music.  The cloud music allows you to add an additional $1 (or more) per year, you get an incremental 1GB (or more) of storage.

As far as I know, Amazon has not negotiated a direct licenses with content owners for Cloud Drive. Amazon’s new Cloud Drive service lets you store your music, movies, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon’s servers in a sort of virtual locker so that you can get to your entire digital library any time and anywhere. When you want to listen to, watch, or otherwise use what’s in your locker, you open it up in a browser or on your phone if you have an Android phone (and you have to think an iPhone app is forthcoming).

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Elastic Beanstalk By Amazon Made For Easier App Deployment

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing business of Amazon.com, this morning announced a new offering dubbed AWS Elastic Beanstalk, aimed to simplify the deployment and management of AWS cloud applications developed by third parties.

Elastic Beanstalk is designed to help developers automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and health monitoring.  As part of this AWS still allows full control the underlying resources so that you can switch them up at any time.

There is no extra charge for this service to any of the ASW cloud server customers, they pay only for the AWS resources needed to run their applications.

John Dillon, CEO of Engine Yard, is quoted in the press release thusly:

“We’re working with AWS to provide an Elastic Beanstalk Ruby on Rails container that leverages the optimized Engine Yard stack which has been battle-tested by thousands of high-growth companies.”

For more information, check out the FAQ and Documentation sections.

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Eli Lilly Cloud Hosting Problems

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Last week reports surfaced indicating that Eli Lilly, a marquee customer of Amazon’s Web Services, had decided against expanding its use of the hosted services after the companies failed to agree on liability terms. Some analysts have concluded that Amazon is essentially unwilling to negotiate contract terms and may not be serious about targeting enterprise customers.

Amazon cloud hosting services (AWS) has declined to comment on the specifics of its contract with Eli Lilly, but said that the pharmaceutical company continues to be a customer of Amazon’s Web Services and that both companies are pleased with their current relationship. Eli Lilly also confirmed that it continues to employ a variety of Amazon Web Services.

In an interview, the head of Amazon’s Web Services said that the company does negotiate contract terms with enterprises and is interested in attracting customers of all sizes. He also said that large companies may need to adjust their expectations when starting to use the cloud.

“We absolutely negotiate enterprise agreements with enterprises who want something more tailored” than the stock customer agreement that Amazon offers on its Web Services sites, said Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web Services.

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