I have some experience with Akamai’s WAA (Web applications archive) service, which I’ve been using in my professional capacity for a few years now. And I’ve have been curious about how  cloudfront compares with it. Until a few weeks ago, Cloudfront didn’t have a key feature which I think was critical for it to win [...]

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 [...]