Amazon EC2: Now in Unlimited Beta and Launching New Instance Types (October 16, 2007)
The Amazon EC2 Beta is now open to all developers and any developer can sign up to start using Amazon EC2 today. Additionally, Amazon EC2 has launched "Large" and "Extra Large" instance types to provide more memory, CPU, and instance storage, and are based on 64bit technology. The Large Instance is equivalent to roughly four Small Instances (original instance), and the Extra Large Instance is roughly equivalent to eight Small Instances. This was a popular request from customers that we're very happy to address with this release. Read more details about these Instances.

Announcing "AWS Start-Up Challenge": Win $100,000 Plus an Investment Offer From Amazon (September 12, 2007)
AWS has just launched the AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest for entrepreneurs and software developers that will award the winner $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, an investment offer from Amazon.com, and more. What are you waiting for? Submit your idea now.

Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) - Limited Beta (August 2, 2007)
Amazon Web Services has opened a limited beta of Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS). Amazon FPS is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers. The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon's reliable and scalable payment infrastructure. Learn more about this new service.

1. Create your free Amazon Web Services account 
2. Explore our web services
3. Build your application

Students Learn Cloud Computing (October 8, 2007)
Phil Windley gives his students at Brigham Young University hands-on experience using Amazon EC2, SQS and S3.

Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Apps (October 1, 2007)
Lei Zhu describes how he built a load-balanced solution with EC2 servers that has no single point of failure.

Geezeo's Use of Amazon Web Services (September 28, 2007)
Theron Parlin and James Elwood speak about their use of Amazon EC2 at The Start-Up Project - Boston. 

Amazon Web Services in NYC (September 28, 2007)
Clint Boulton of eWeek attends AWS The Start-Up Project - New York and hears from local start-ups building on AWS.

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