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Amazon Web Services now in Australia (Sydney)

Big news this morning:

Amazon Web Services has just launched an AWS region in Sydney, Australia!

The new Asia Pacific (Sydney) region supports almost all of AWS’ services including EC2, RDS, S3 and many more.

After launching an Australian Edge Location in June 2012 for Route 53 and CloudFront, I (along with many other Australian developers) have been waiting for AWS to launch a fully-fledged Australian region.

Whilst there are already some Australian-specific Cloud Computing offerings, this is a big day for us now that the AWS juggernaut has launched here.

Rackspace (another large cloud computing provider) has previously committed to launching a Syndey-based datacentre in 2012, however we are yet to see that launch.

Overall, I think that more competition in the Australian cloud industry can only be a good thing for us. It’s likely to help drive down the high costs of Australia’s high bandwidth/data.

Onwards and upwards!

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Amazon Web Services Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia?

Powered By Amazon Web Services LogoCloud solutions such as Amazon Web Services can be a cost-effective way for businesses to obtain a highly scalable online presence.

However, for performance (and privacy) reasons, many Australian business owners require their website and other data to be physically hosted in Australia.

As an Australian user of AWS, one of the recurring conversations I continue to have with other Australians is if (and when) will Amazon Web Services add an Australian region to their service offerings?

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Photography

Macbook Pro & Instagram

Today I decided to test out Instagram, and within a few minutes I managed to come up with (what I think is) an interesting photo of my Macbook Pro:

Macbook Pro
Macbook Pro

If you’re an iPhone user and haven’t checked out Instagram yet, I recommend getting it from the App Store (its free)!

Interestingly Instagram use Amazon Web Services too!

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Amazon Web Services Cloud Meetups

Amazon Web Services Melbourne Meetup March 2011

Last night Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist at Amazon Web Services Asia Pacific came to Melbourne for the Amazon Web Services Melbourne meetup.

Amazon Web Services LogoSimone and I organised the event – please read on for a summary.

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Cloud News Ninefold

Ninefold: a New Australian-Based Cloud Server & Storage Provider

There is some exciting progress in the Australian-based cloud provider market, with Sydney-based Ninefold opening its doors to the public yesterday.