Red Hat Enterprise Linux Available on Amazon EC2 (November 7, 2007)
Red Hat has announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on Amazon EC2. This collaboration between AWS and Red Hat marries all the capabilities of both RHEL and EC2. Now developers can pay as they go for resizable compute capacity in the cloud while accessing the Red Hat Network management service, world class technical support, and over 3,000 certified applications. Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 is available as a private beta today, with public beta availability planned for the fourth calendar quarter of 2007. For more information on the offering, and to indicate your interest in the beta program, please visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud.

Amazon S3 Now Available in Europe (November 6, 2007)
Amazon Web Services has launched European storage for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), allowing software developers and businesses to store their data in Europe. Read more about this announcement in the press release or get started today by signing up for Amazon S3.

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.

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

The New York Times' use of Amazon EC2 and S3 (November 1, 2007)
In less than 24 hours, The New York Times processed 11 million articles (circa 1851-1922) using 100 EC2 instances and stored more than 1.5TB of data in Amazon S3.

BungeeLabs launches Amazon FPS Library (October 22, 2007)
Get started with Amazon Flexible Payments Service using the new library and Bungee Connect, a 100% web-based development environment.

RightScale wins 'Best in Show' at VentureNet (October 22, 2007)
RightScale is named "company to watch" by a committee of venture capital investors for their management platform built on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

AWS Update at Web 2.0 Summit (October 18, 2007)
Amazon Web Services Vice President Adam Selipsky spoke at Web 2.0 Summit about the latest things happening in AWS.

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