Inflated bill for Amazon RDS service

Jul 04, 2010. Again, my own fault, and I deserve the inflated bill - but let's be honest here - Amazon Web Services still lacks the user-friendly aspects that would allow less-technical people to use the service.
Filed under: Billing, Amazon

Follow-up: AWS Management Console for Amazon S3

Jun 14, 2010. The interface is a breath of fresh air, since I've been accustomed to less refined interfaces such as S3Fox and JungleDisk.
Filed under: Storage, Amazon

Amazon S3 now part of AWS Management Console

Jun 10, 2010. Amazon has finally provided a user interface for managing content on their S3 service.
Filed under: Storage, Amazon

Kindle Popular Highlights

May 07, 2010. If Amazon is looking to keep Kindle relevant, in the wake of the iPad, pushing their Kindle *platform* (not their Kindle *hardware*) seems like the best bet.
Filed under: e-reading, Amazon

Amazon Web Services: free inbound data transfer until 6/30/10

Dec 08, 2009. Amazon did this last year, at least for their S3 service, and they're doing it again. From now until June 30, 2010, any **inbound data transfers** are free of charge.
Filed under: Promotions, Amazon, Cloud Computing, #fb

How Amazon wishlists have altered the meaning of Christmas

Dec 02, 2009. Today I'm eager to discuss arbitrary wish lists, and how we should revert back to sharing these types of lists, instead of predictable Amazon wish lists.
Filed under: Holiday, Amazon, #fb | 2 comments

Kindle highlighting and notes saved on the web

May 28, 2009. This is a really nice perk of electronic book reading - the ability to make notes and highlight passages of text, and immediately access them through a web browser, so you can share, or copy/paste the text somewhere else, etc.
Filed under: Amazon, Kindle, Web, Features

JungleDisk support for Rackspace "Cloud Files" overwhelmed out of the gate

Mar 22, 2009. It's not to say that Amazon S3 hasn't had it's own problems in the past, but this kind of incident, right out of the gate, can't do much for Rackspace's credibility in the cloud storage arena.
Filed under: JungleDisk, Storage, Rackspace, Amazon | 3 comments

The Kindle is software, not hardware?

Mar 04, 2009. Your Kindle is now your iPhone. Huh?
Filed under: Amazon, Kindle, Software, Hardware, iTunes, ebooks

Amazon Kindle not about looks and features

Feb 10, 2009. I believe the Kindle is built to help you do two things: obtain and read books. If Amazon has achieved that, then the Kindle is a success.
Filed under: Amazon, Hardware, Apple