Amazon Web Services Blog: Two Good Podcasts

Web Services Wish List

Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) exposes Amazon's product data and e-commerce functionality.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

The Amazon Historical Pricing web service gives developers programmatic access to over three years of actual sales data for books, music, videos, and DVDs.

Mechanical Turk

One of the best ways to understand Amazon Mechanical Turk is to complete a HIT and see what the experience is like.

Simple Storage Service

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Simple Queue Service

Amazon Simple Queue Service offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers.

Alexa Thumbnails

All thumbnail images are accessible via web services, using SOAP or REST.

Alexa Top Sites

The Alexa Top Sites web service provides ranked lists of the top sites on the Internet.

Alexa Web Information Service

The Alexa Web Information Service makes Alexa's vast repository of information about the traffic and structure of the web available to developers.

Alexa Web Search

The Alexa Web Search web service offers programmatic access to Alexa's web search engine.

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Two Good Podcasts

I hardly ever listen to broadcast radio in my car anymore. Instead, I subscribe to a whole bunch of podcasts, some technical, some fun, and others educational. Here are two episodes which should be of interest to anyone who reads this blog:

The Mashable Podcast interviews Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale. Michael talks about their product and how it helps organizations to use Amazon EC2 in a cost-effective fashion.

The IT Conversations Podcast captures Amazon CTO Werner Vogels as he talks about AWS at last years ETech conference.

You can listen to either or both of these on the respective sites or you can simply subscribe to their RSS feeds.

-- Jeff;

PS - Congratulations are due to to RightScale for the successful completion of their fund raising endeavor.

April 28, 2008 in Thought Pieces | Permalink