Posts tagged "Amazon EC2"

Amazon Public Data Sets bring the Cloud of Data closer

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown It began, as so many things do these days, with an idle tweet. On 21 November, Amazon Web Services‘ Deepak Singh pointed to a new page describing the company’s ‘Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services.’ Lidija Davis covered the news for ReadWriteWeb two days later and on 4 December...

Amazon brings EC2 to Europe

As I escaped the tedium of early morning traffic to slurp up some (free) wifi and (non-free) coffee beside the UK’s M1, Amazon’s Deepak Singh was winding down to the end of a day on Pacific Time with a tweet to announce the availability of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers on this side of the...