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AWS Cloud Worshop, Chennai Event
November is rainy season in Chennai, despite it we at Amazon Web Services Enthusiasts and Users Group Chennai decided to host a AWS Cloud Workshop on Nov 10. While the Chennai infrastructure got clogged due to rains, (web)Infrastructure as a … Continue reading
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance: The Good, Bad and the Ugly
Amazon Web Services announced the Amazon Reserved Instance and tweaked the pricing accordingly. It has all the awesomeness, technology advancement, and business innovativeness, that everyone has come to expect from Amazon these days. Yet in my opinion, Reserved Instance is … Continue reading
Sim-OnDemand: OpenSim on EC2- Personal Virtual World Server
In the last post I mentioned that Sim-OnDemand is a learning by doing initiative in DevPay context. Let me elaborate on Sim-OnDemand a bit. The intended purpose of Sim-OnDemand is as a personal Sim for experimentation, development and testing. Sim-OnDemand: … Continue reading
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Tagged AWS DevPay, ec2 AMi launcher, ec2 paid ami, firefox extension, opensim, opensim on ec2, Personal Virtual World for experimentation, Sim-OnDemand, virtual world, virtual world software plus cloud
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AWS DevPay: Learning by Doing – Making Money With OpenSource
AWS DevPay is one of lesser publicized and presumably under utilized service by Amazon Web Services. A Platform + Community play becomes an growing, thriving ecosystem when barriers of making money off the ecosystem are reduced. DevPay makes it possible … Continue reading
Amazon Elastic Block Store and Opensim
The announcement of Elastic Block Store has opened the flood gates for new methods of using, distributing, and monetizing opensource software. The very nature of opensource software is that it is emergent – always getting enhanced by the community. Opensim … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon EBS, AWS DevPay, opensim
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Making money with Amazon DevPay: Getting Started
One thing that differentiates AWS is how money is figured out neatly. Recently I was getting my hands dirty with AWS DevPay to learn how the premium EC2 AMIs really work. Before that, if you wish to use DevPay, you … Continue reading
Take Over The Sky – Slowly
Amazon and Jeff Bezos are all set to take over the world – in their typical way – Slowly. With the announcement of AWS DevPay today closely following SimpleDB announcement last week, the game is getting interesting by the hour. … Continue reading
Milemeter got my vote in AWS Challenge
Today I voted for Amazon Web Services StartUp challenge. I voted for MileMeter – an auto insurance company that offers insurance by the mile. It seems they have sixty ‘patent pendings’ on the concept and processes. They are going to … Continue reading
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