If you missed the AWS S3 versioning webcast, I have a copy of the video here. And here are the highlights..

You can enable and disable this at the bucket level
They don’t think there is a performance penalty of turning versioning (but it was kind of obvious S3 would be doing slightly extra work [...]

One of the problem with Amazon’s S3 was the inability to take a “snapshot” of the state of S3 at any given moment. This is one of the most important DR (disaster recovery) steps of any major upgrade which could potentially corrupt data during a release. Until now the applications using S3 would have had [...]

Update as of Feb 28th 2009: Contradictory to my initial speculation, Amazon CloudFront is nothing like Akamai WAA. This is very depressing to me as an Akamai/WAA customer… I’m sure folks at Akamai don’t share this opinion.  CloudFront seems to be a glorified S3 solution which is mostly used for static (non-dynamic) content.
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Amazon has finally [...]

Smugmug.com, a 5 year old company with just 23 employees has 315000 paying customers and 195 million photographs. CEO & “Chief Geek” Don MacAskill has a nice set of slides where he talks about its 5 year journey during which it went from small startup to a profitable business. The talk was given during Amazon’s [...]

The first thing most doc-com companies do before going public is setup an infrastructure to provide the service. And though it might sound straight forward to most of you, it can be a very expensive affair. To come up with the right kind of infrastructure for any new service a few key architectural decisions have [...]