Amazon Web Services Developer Connection Newsletter #37

Greetings AWS Developers,

No shortage of exciting news items this past month! Customers of AWS Infra=
structure Services are now benefiting from lower data transfer costs and AW=
S Premium Support services. Amazon EC2 has announced the upcoming availabi=
lity of persistent storage, and for those of you who are both merchants and=
developers, make sure you read about the Amazon Fulfillment Web Service to=
learn how you can integrate even more closely with the Fulfillment By Amaz=
on program.

Kathrin Jackson
Amazon Web Services

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usly and to pass those savings on to you. We have been able to reduce our c=
osts for data transfer, so we’re pleased to lower our pricing for data tran=
sfer, effective May 1, 2008. We’ve reduced prices at every existing usage t=
ier of transfer out, as well as added an additional tier for the heaviest u=
sers. Please see the full announcement for more details.

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=09In mid-April, we were pleased to announce the availability of AWS Premium Support. Customers who sign up for AWS Premium Support will receive personalized =
technical assistance from the Amazon Web Services team, whenever and as fre=
quently as their business demands. Customers can contact AWS developer supp=
ort engineers and count on fast, predictable response times and personalize=
d support for operational issues or technical questions associated with AWS=
Infrastructure Services. In addition to the launch of AWS Premium Support,=
we also announced a Service Health Dashboard, which reports the status of our services and is available free-of-charge=
to all AWS customers.
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=09Last month, we announced a major upcoming feature that many of you have re=
quested - persistent storage for Amazon EC2. This new feature provides rel=
iable, persistent storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These=
volumes exist independently from any Amazon EC2 instances, and will behave=
like raw, unformatted hard drives or block devices, which may then be form=
atted and configured based on the needs of your application. The volumes w=
ill be significantly more durable than the local disks within an Amazon EC2=
instance. Additionally, our persistent storage feature will enable you to=
automatically create snapshots of your volumes and back them up to Amazon =
S3 for even greater reliability. We expect to make persistent storage for =
Amazon EC2 publicly available later this year. To learn more about persis=
tent storage and how to sign up for a spot in the private beta program, ple=
ase see the full announcement.

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=09Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS) allows merchants to access Ama=
zon.com’s world-class fulfillment capabilities through a simple web service=
s interface. Amazon FWS makes it easy for merchants and developers to progr=
ammatically integrate the benefits of Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) into thei=
r own web sites or other sales channels. With FBA, merchants can

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