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Paging Researchers, Analysts, and DevelopersYesterday

Hi, I am Deepak Singh, a business development manager at Amazon Web Services. One of my areas of focus is scientific computing on AWS, and I am guest blogging today about an exciting new initiative that will bring great benefit to researchers and scientists.

"Science was always about mashing up, taking one result and applying it to your [work] in a different way. The question is ‘Can we make that as effective [for] samples [of] data and analysis as it [is] for a map and set of addresses for a coffee shop?’ That is the vision." -- Cameron Neylon

One way to achieve Cameron Neylon's vision is to have access to public sources of data. This becomes even more powerful if scientists and analysts can use the available data to perform all kinds of computational and analytical tasks. At Amazon Web Services we believe that making it easy for people to get access to data spurs innovation. In line with that thinking, we have launched Public Data Sets on AWS, a new program that significantly lowers the barrier for researchers and data analysts to access and use some o

Amazon SimpleDB Grows UpDecember 1

The private beta test of Amazon SimpleDB has gone really well. We've learned a lot during the beta and have fine-tuned the feature set in order to make sure that we are meeting the needs of current and future users.

Before I delve into the details, let me get one important fact out of the way. After a year of private beta testing, we are moving SimpleDB into an unlimited beta, effective immediately! To get started, simply click the Signup button embedded in this post.

Simple does not mean simplistic and it does not mean that SimpleDB is suited only to storing small amounts of data. In fact, many of the defining and simplifying characteristics of SimpleDB become more and more prominent as request rates rise and the amount of data under management grows to terabyte levels.

Let's take a quick look at what simple means when it comes to SimpleDB:

We've made the business decision to go with SimpleDB even simpler than it was before. You can now get started for free. For at least the next six months, you can consume up to 1 GB of storage, and you can use up to 25 machine hours

Mathematica on Amazon EC2November 24

Last week, I talked about MATLAB on Amazon EC2. Today, I am very excited to talk about Mathematica on Amazon EC2.

Wolfram Research announced last week that they will be embracing the Cloud and providing a "Cloud Computing Service" with help of Nimbis Services, Inc  

The Mathematica cloud computing service will provide flexible and scalable access to HPC from within Mathematica, simplifying the transition from desktop technical computing to HPC. "The two largest challenges in using HPC are programming the HPC application itself and ensuring that you can get enough computing power to do the job," says Tom Wickham-Jones, Wolfram Research Executive Director of Kernel Technology. "Mathematica answers the programming challenge by providing an integrated technical computing platform, enabling computation, visualization, and data access. Cloud computing offers consistent access to large-scale computing capabilities.

A Screenshot from recent demonstration at SC08:

Content Delivery Service Flying HighNovember 24

It’s fun to look at buzz and activity right after a new Amazon Web Service gets launched – in this case the service I’m thinking about is Amazon CloudFront, which is our new Content Delivery Service. Jeff Barr blogged about CloudFront’s features and benefits when the service launched last week.

What prompted this particular blog post was a Twitter message (“tweet”) that Jeff saw and  forwarded to me. “Thanks to Amazon CloudFront, small websites can take advantage of a CDN. I don't think Photos.aero will spend $10 ‘til November 30.” The post was about www.photos.aero, which is an aircraft enthusiasts’ site. (I’m a pilot, so Jeff knew that I’d be interested.)

That is indeed amazing! Until Amazon CloudFront came along, setting up content distribution was a real pain, in my opinion. You had to contact the service provider, do the whole “sales cycle” dance, and then wonder if in fact your prices were market price, or whether you signed up to pay a premium. The AWS approach is very egalitarian, and while I am certain that sales folks are nice people, it’s not a scalab

Capgemini and Amazon Web Services Announce CollaborationNovember 18

The AWS ecosystem grew again today, when Capgemini announced that they will collaborate with Amazon Web Services by forming a new Center of Excellence focused on Cloud Computing—and AWS in particular. This means that Capgemini will have a team of Amazon Web Services-trained professionals, located in North America, Europe and India, to provide a variety of services. They will initially focus on three enterprise use cases: Microsoft SharePoint in the cloud, Oracle ERP in the cloud, and Application Development and Testing in the cloud. Capgemini is headquartered in Paris, France and operates in more than 36 countries with 86,000 people in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

Ecosystems are important. In traditional computing environments a healthy ecosystem includes ISVs, Solution Integrators, and Solution Providers—just to name a few. We’re starting to see the same ecosystem form around Amazon Web Services, which not only validates the platform: it provides value to Enterprise customers who want to move their operations into the cloud.

You can read the complete press release