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Amazon's CloudFront Takes On Akamai

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront’s biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...

Tags: Content Delivery, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., CloudFront, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-19

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Amazon Lowers CDN Cloudfront Pricing

Dan Rayburn submits: Amazon AMZN announced yesterday morning that come February 1st, it will lower pricing for its content delivery network service, CloudFront, for large customers doing more than 1,000TB a month in volume. Amazon has already posted the new rates on its website. This is an expected move...

Tags: Internet, Dan Rayburn, Amazon.com Inc.

External links 2009-01-29

Amazon's New Content Delivery Network

Dan Rayburn submits: Last night, Amazon AMZN launched their new HTTP based content delivery service (CDN), dubbed "CloudFront", as an unlimited public beta. While I'm sure many in the market are going to compare Amazon's new CDN offering to other CDNs like Akamai and Limelight, it's important to get...

Tags: U.S., Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Seeking Alpha, Dan Rayburn, Internet

External links 2008-11-18

With Hadoop, Amazon Adds a Web-Scale File System to Its Cloud

Erick Schonfeld submits: Slowly but surely, Amazon AMZN keeps adding capabilities to its cloud computing services. What started out as pay-by-the-drink storage (S3) and computational processing (EC2), now includes a simple database SimpleDB, a content delivery network CloudFront, and computer-to-computer messaging SQS. And Thursday Amazon added a...

Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Amazon.com Inc.

External links 2009-04-02

Taking Stock Of Cloud Computing

Contrary to popular preconceptions, cloud computing isn't the stuff of start-ups and fringe companies â€" it's really big business run by very public companies (and I don't just mean Salesforce.com and VMware). My colleague Erik Sherman has an interesting take on the cloud computing business model, but putting aside his...

Tags: Stock, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Michael Hickins

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Heads Up: Some Samsung Home Video Gear Getting Amazon VOD and Blockbuster Streaming by Firmware Update [Software]

Owners of some recent Samsung HDTVs like the 650 or 7000 series and above, will be getting Amazon video on demand via firmware update. Those TVs, and some blu-ray and HTIB setups detailed below will be getting Blockbuster's video service. Yay for the endless upgrade, boo for the infinite format...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

News items 2009-10-15