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Amazon adds CloudFront API for content invalidation by joelvarty

Good news from Amazon this morning as they have announced what I’ve been asking for – an API for content invalidation.  Previously, they allowed content to have a max-age of 1 hour, but it didn’t allow for the control that a manual invalidation would...
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Google Storage for Developers… by joelvarty

I noticed this today and it seems to be a service that will compete with Amazon S3 and Microsoft’s Azure Blob storage. It’s only open to US developers for now, but I have one burning question: can we transfer directly from Google Storage to another Google...
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Using Amazon S3/Cloudfront and Encoding.com to deliver web video – step by step for iPhone/iPod/iPad… by joelvarty

  The Amazon AWS newsletter for May 2010 had a great link in it to this article by encoding.com on how you can use they service to encode your video for multi-format, multi-bandwidth streaming to many devices, including iPhone, iPad, and Flash with...
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Amazon CloudFront Cache Invalidation – Fill out the Survey! by joelvarty

Amazon have come up with a survey regarding how cache can be invalidated on object stored in their CloudFront servers. http://survey.amazonwebservices.com/survey/s?s=1369   This is a key feature for Agility CMS, and for a lot of other applications...
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Amazon S3 – Now with Versioning! by joelvarty

One of best tools that we’ve been using extensively with Agility is Amazon’s Simple Storage Service.  One of the features that we get asked about often (probably because we have it built into our own custom storage tool) is the ability to store versions...
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Amazon Web Services Import/Export – fill your S3 buckets without killing your bandwidth by joelvarty

  One of the things about online file storage is getting the first massive data dump onto the server.  If you have a lot of data to store, it would be more prudent to simply take an external drive to the physical data center and do a transfer...
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