This year
2011
High Scalability - High Scalability - StackExchange Architecture Updates - Running Smoothly, Amazon 4x More Expensive
They estimate Amazon would cost them 4 times much.
2010
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
High Scalability - High Scalability - Scaling an AWS infrastructure - Tools and Patterns
How do you scale an AWS (Amazon Web Services) infrastructure? This article will give you a detailed reply in two parts: the tools you can use to make the most of Amazon’s dynamic approach, and the architectural model you should adopt for a scalable infrastructure.
Python Developer Center
The Python Developer Center contains sample code, documentation, tools, and additional resources to help you build applications on Amazon Web Services.
Python Package Index : mr.awsome 0.2
mr.awsome is a commandline-tool (aws) to manage and control Amazon Webservice's EC2 instances. Once configured with your AWS key, you can create, delete, monitor and ssh into instances, as well as perform scripted tasks on them (via fabfiles). Examples are adding additional, pre-configured webservers to a cluster (including updating the load balancer), performing automated software deployments and creating backups - each with just one call from the commandline. Aw(e)some, indeed, if we may say so...
2009
2008
Chief Of The Year: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels -- InformationWeek
simpledb-dev - Google Code
SimpleDB/dev provides a local SimpleDB server, so you can develop offline, without even currently having a SimpleDB account.
a nice usage of web.py
















