Tag: Amazon
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Amazon CloudFront has an edge location in Singapore
Today, I got an email from Amazon informing about new location of Amazon CloudFront. Now, it has a new location in Singapore. Previously, Amazon only has its CloudFront server located in Tokyo and Hongkong. Here’s the news delivered in the email: Starting immediately, Amazon CloudFront will begin using the Singapore edge location for requests for…
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Automatic WordPress Backup (to Amazon S3)
Today, I tried another WordPress plugin called “Automatic WordPress Backup”. This plugin will help blog owners to create backup remotely to Amazon S3 service. Since I’m using it and pretty satisfied with the billing usage, I installed it at some WordPress-powered blogs I maintain. I use one of the available buckets under my account. For…
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Amazon S3 Billing Statement Sample
In last September, I started to use Amazon S3 for some experimental purposes. And, it’s not that difficult — of course, I only use some basic action. CloudBerry Explorer and S3Fox are really helpful. Now, if you want to know the billing calculation — just in case you’re interested to try Amazon S3 (also with…
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Getting Started with Amazon S3
After I signed up for Amazon S3 and CloudFront last week, I started to use it right away. Before that, I tried to get as many information as possible. It seemed easy. I had to deal with some new words like “bucket“, “Access Key ID“, and also “Secret Access Key“. Amazon S3 — just like…
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WordPress, Amazon S3 and CloudFront
In the last two days, I was working on an experiment to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon CloudFront together with WordPress. It’s not primary for my blog, but for my friend. There are many tutorials and good recommendation on this. Since my friend using WordPress as the publishing platform, and it is…
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Mentioned brands on Twitter
Brand Republic released a list of 100 most mentioned brands on popular microblogging service, Twitter. Here are the top ten (order by how many these brands were mentioned): Starbucks Google BBC Apple AIG Amazon Microsoft Guardian Dell Coca-Cola Do all of those brands — and the rest on the list — have their own Twitter…