New Functionality Added to Amazon FPS Widgets (May 13, 2008)
Amazon FPS has released a new Marketplace Widget, which allows developers to easily move money between two third parties, and a new Marketplace Fee feature enables them to charge a fee for doing so. In addition, new functionality has been added to the "Pay Now" Widget allowing developers to quickly integrate with Amazon FPS. This new functionality includes Reserve and Settle, Instant Payment Notification, Refund API, and more.

OpenSolaris and MySQL Enterprise on Amazon EC2 (May 5, 2008)
Sun Microsystems and Amazon Web Services are collaborating to offer two open source solutions on Amazon EC2: OpenSolaris and MySQL technical support. With OpenSolaris OS on Amazon EC2, you have access to a robust operating system on a scalable, cost-effective virtual computing environment. And now MySQL Enterprise customers can choose to deploy their database on Amazon EC2 and receive full database software and production support from MySQL. These new offerings extend the breadth and support of EC2's on-demand, pay-as-you-go computing environment. Learn about OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 and MySQL on EC2.

AWS Lowers Data Transfer Costs - Effective May 1 (April 22, 2008)
As a result of driving down costs for data transfer, we are pleased to announce that we're lowering our pricing for data transfer, effective May 1, 2008. We've reduced price at every existing usage tier of transfer out, as well as added an additional tier for the heaviest users; all customers will see a reduction in the price of transfer out. For more details, please see our forum posts for Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS, or DevPay.

Announcing AWS Premium Support (April 16, 2008)
AWS is pleased to announce the availability of AWS Premium Support. AWS customers who sign up for AWS Premium Support will receive personalized technical assistance from the Amazon Web Services team, whenever and as frequently as their business demands. Customers can contact AWS developer support engineers and count on fast, predictable response times and personalized support for operational issues or technical questions associated with AWS Infrastructure Services. In addition to the launch of AWS Premium Support, we are also announcing a Service Health Dashboard, which reports the status of our services and is available free-of-charge to all AWS customers.

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12 Signs That Your Company is Already in the Cloud (April 25, 2008)
#8: As you walk through the office, you notice all the "Security Awareness" posters have been replaced with pictures of Jeff Bezos

Animoto's Facebook Scale-Up (April 23, 2008)
Animoto ramped from 25,000 users to 250,000 users in three days...scaling up to more than 4000 EC2 instances. Using RightScale to manage their load, they were launching and configuring 40 new instances per minute.

Wired Magazine: Cloud Computing, Available at Amazon Today (April 21, 2008)
"Now Bezos' globe-spanning empire is primed to lead the migration of computing power from the desktop to the Net."

Now Available: "Programming Amazon Web Services" book (April 1, 2008)
This book demonstrates how to use Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications. Order today.

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