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AWS Events and Webinars for April 2011

The AWS team will be participating in and putting on a number of live events and webinars this month. Here's a full list.

Live events:

• April 4 - East Bay Java User Group (Oakland, CA).
• April 5 - SugarCRM Customer and Developer Conference (San Francisco, CA).
• April 5 - Rochester AWS User Group (Rochester, NY).
• April 6 - AWS 101 Technical Workshop (Bangalore, India).
• April 6 - AWS Cloud Advantage Seminar (Tokyo).
• April 6 - CloudOps Meetup (Montreal, Canada) - Register!
• April 7 - CRIM Crystall Ball Conference (Montreal, Canada).
• April 12 - Cloud Computing for DoD and Government (San Diego, CA).
• April 13 - Cloud Computing for Geographers, AAG Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA).
• April 14 - Cloud and Data Center World (Seoul, Korea).
• April 14 - AWS 101 for Government (Herndon, VA).
• April 14 - AWS User Group - NYC (New York, NY)
• April 16 - Mobile App Hackathon (Seattle, WA).
• April 16 - Japan AWS User Group Miyazaki (Miyazaki, Japan).
• April 19 - UCLA Cloud Summit (Los Angeles, CA).
• April 19 - Japan AWS User Group Kyushu (Fukuoka, Japan).
• April 20 - Cloud Connections (Las Vegas, NV).
• April 20 - Japan AWS User Group Saga (Saga, Japan).
• April 21 - Cloud Connections Workshop - Moving to the Cloud Step By Step (6 hours, Las Vegas).
• April 21 - Japan AWS User Group Yamaguchi (Yamaguchi, Japan).
• April 21 - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing User Group - Silicon Valley (Palo Alto, CA).
• April 22 - Japan AWS User Group Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan).
• April 23 - Japan AWS User Group Osaka (Osaka, Japan).
• April 25 - Japan AWS User Group Sapporo (Sapporo, Japan).
• April 26 - Japan AWS User Group Nagoya (Nagoya, Japan).
• April 27 - AWS 101 Technical Workshop (Singapore).
• April 27 - Cloud Computing Virtual Tech Summit.
• April 27 - AWS User Group Finland (Helsinki, Finland).
• April 27-28 - SOA & Cloud Symposium (Brasilia, Brazil).
• April 27-29 - The Next Web (Amsterdam).
• April 28 - Japan AWS User Group Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan).
• April 28-29 - Festival of Games (The Netherlands).
• April 29 - Startup Weekend (Seattle, WA).
• April 30 - LinuxFest (Bellingham, WA).
• April 30 - Japan AWS User Group Cloud Joshikai (Tokyo, Japan).

Webinars:

• April 13 - AWS Cloud Computing Strategies for Advertising Agencies.
• April 13 - Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
• April 20 - High Scale Computing on Amazon Web Services.
• April 21 - Introduction to Amazon Web Services.
• April 22 - CloudSlam.
• April 26 - Evaluating Storage Options in the AWS Cloud.

We hope to see you at one of our live or online events this month!

-- Jeff;

Announcing AWS $NAME

As I've blogged about in the past, we love to listen to our customers, and what we hear from them has a direct and very visible influence on our development process. I can literally watch as the information flows from customer meetings to trip reports to press releases (we write those first, before we build the product) and ultimately into products. I've learned that real data from real customers is a very strong persuasive tool.

Just about a year ago, our customers started to ask us for a new product with increased scalability and durability, at the lowest possible price tag. We took a lot of notes and finally figured out what the heck they wanted. We put a crack team on it and they've been working on realizing the vision for over 10 months.

I'm happy to announce that $NAME is now available in a limited beta test form (sign up here). This service is really cool and I think you are really going to like it.

Here are the most important features:

Scalable - $NAME can go from 0 to 10¹⁰⁰ and back again within seconds. You can do this manually or with the aid of some CloudWatch Alarms.

Durable - $NAME will survive for at least a day, no matter what.

Global - $NAME is available in all five AWS Regions now.

Cost-Efective - This service is priced far lower than competitive services. It is also made available to you on a pay-as-you-go basis, so you never consume more $NAME than you actually need.

Compatible - $NAME works with your existing tools and applications; no modifications are required.

Secure - $NAME is fully certified and compliant.

As I've noted  before, $NAME is designed to work within your existing environment. Here's a block diagram:

Since this is a web service, there's a complete API, with Create, Describe, and Delete calls. We expect a number of third-party tools and toolkits to announce support for $NAME later today.

Update: $NAME is now supported by Shlomo Swidler and Ylastic. Support from CloudBerry Lab is expected to be ready today. Boto includes full support (read their blog post to learn more).

-- Jeff;