Amazon CloudFront Adds Invalidation Feature
Via AWS News
Amazon CloudFront, Amazon’s easy-to-use content delivery network, now supports the ability to remove files from all edge locations prior to the expiration date set on those files. If you need to remove multiple files at once, you may also send a list of files to remove as a batch. The invalidation feature is helpful in unexpected circumstances, such as an encoding error on a video you uploaded or an occasional update to your website’s css file, in which you to need to remove the file from Amazon CloudFront. Invalidation can also be helpful in the event that offensive or potentially harmful material needs to be removed before the specified expiration time. Invalidation requests for the first 1,000 files each month are provided at no additional charge; above this level, there is a $ 0.005 charge for invalidating each additional file. You can read more about the invalidation feature in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide. For more information on Amazon CloudFront, visit the Amazon CloudFront page.
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New Lower Prices for High Memory Double and Quadruple XL Instances
Effective immediately, we have lowered the On-Demand and Reserved prices for High Memory Double Extra Large (m2.2xlarge) and Quadruple Extra Large (m2.4xlarge) instances for Linux/UNIX and Windows by up to 19%. If you have existing Reserved Instances, your hourly usage rate starting September 1st will be lowered to the new usage rate and your estimated bill will reflect these changes later this month. We continuously strive to be more efficient, and are excited to pass cost savings on to you in the form of lower prices. For more details on Amazon EC2 pricing, please visit the Amazon EC2 pricing page.
Announcing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) – Preview Beta
We’re pleased to release today a Preview Beta of a new AWS feature: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM enables you to create multiple Users and manage the permissions for each of these Users within your AWS Account. A User is an identity (within your AWS Account) with unique security credentials that can be used to access AWS Services. IAM eliminates the need to share passwords or access keys, and makes it easy to enable or disable a User’s access as appropriate. IAM offers you greater flexibility, control and security when using AWS.
We are excited to offer you early access to this new functionality. As part of this Preview Beta, we are enabling you to programmatically add Users to your AWS Account, set groups and permissions for these Users, and enable your Users to call AWS Service APIs.
In the near future, we plan on adding support for your Users to login to the AWS Management Console. We also plan to extend the AWS Management Console to support IAM, providing a web-based interface to manage your Users, groups, and permissions.
Learn more about AWS Identity and Access Management Preview Beta at: http://aws.amazon.com/iam
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Amazon Can Win Big With Mobile E-Commerce
“We believe that growth in mobile e-commerce represents a major opportunity for pure online retailers like Amazon and eBay. Around 2% of online sales are generated through mobile phones, according to a recent study by Forrester Research. And mobile e-commerce is expected to generate 8.5% of all e-commerce revenues by 2015, according to Coda Research.”
via Forbes.com.
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