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Cloud Computing and Biomedical Research Roundtable in San DiegoToday

Cirrhus9 (mentioned yesterday) and Pfizer are co-sponsors of a roundtable discussion on the topic of cloud computing and biomedical research. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels will be in attendance at this unique event, where they'll discuss the emerging demands of biomedical research and how they can be met using cloud computing.

The roundtable will be help at 2 PM on January 14th at the Pfizer building in San Diego.

There are just 7 seats left so you'd better go ahead and register now.

-- Jeff;

AWS Links - Wednesday, January 7, 2009Yesterday

As usual, I've got plenty to blog about. Here's a glimpse at some of the interesting things that have recently landed in my inbox.

On Thursday, January 8th, Information Week and Amazon will present a Webcast titled How To Plug Into The Cloud. Attendees will learn how Eli Lilly has used Amazon's EC2 servers and S3 storage to support its pharmaceuticals research. Presenters will include Dave Powers from Eli Lilly and Adam Selipsky from Amazon Web Services. Attendance is free but you do need to preregister.

 

The folks at rPath will be conducting a series of tech events on

Bits For Sale - The New Amazon S3 Requester Pays ModelJanuary 3

We rolled out a powerful new feature for Amazon S3 in the final hours of 2008.

This new feature, dubbed Requester Pays, works at the level of an S3 bucket. If the bucket's owner flags it as Requester Pays, then all data transfer and request costs are paid by the party accessing the data.

The Requester Pays model can be used in two ways.

First, by simply marking a bucket as Requester Pays, data owners can provide access to large data sets without incurring charges for data transfer or requests. For example, they could make available a 1 GB dataset at a cost of just 15 cents per month (18 cents if stored in the European instance of S3). Requesters use signed and specially flagged requests to identify themselves to AWS, paying for S3 GET requests and data transfer at the usual rates — 17 cents per GB for data transfer (even less at high volumes) and 1 cent for every 10,000 GET requests. The newest version of the S3 Developer Guide contains the information needed to make use of S3 in this way.

 

SimpleDB Developer's ForumDecember 31 2008

You are invited to join the Amazon SimpleDB team on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 9am PST for the first session of our new Developers’ Forum. During these once monthly webinars, developers will hear from the technical experts behind SimpleDB, and have the opportunity to engage in live Q&A.

Interested developers may register by emailing simpledb-developer-forum@amazon.com. Please include name & AWS account ID. In addition, developers are encouraged to pre-submit any questions they may have, to allow for a more thorough response during the live webinar. For those struggling with the development of a new application, sample code and a description of the intended application may also be submitted for review and discussion.

The team is looking forward to speaking with developers on the 20th.

-- Jeff;

Please Vote: AWS and AWS-Powered Applications Are Crunchies FinalistsDecember 29 2008

AWS is a finalist in two categories of the Crunchies awards, Best Enterprise and Best Overall.

In addition to that, AWS-powered applications from Animoto and SlideRocket are candidates for Best Design; eBuddy is up for Best International; DropBox for Best New Startup of 2008; and Twitter (competing with AWS) for Best Overall.

If you could take the time to vote that would be great! Here are some direct links to make it really easy: