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"Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance. Amazon Elastic Block Store provides highly available, highly reliable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Some highlights: "Amazon EBS allows you to create storage volumes from 1 GB to 1 TB that can be mounted as devices by Amazon EC2 instances. Multiple volumes can be mounted to the same instance." and "Each storage volume is automatically replicated within the same Availability Zone. This prevents data loss due to failure of any single hardware component." - DeWitt Clinton

This is great stuff. Congrats to @Werner and the AWS team! - DeWitt Clinton

Thanks, DeWitt. I am really interested to see what people will do with the snapshot feature. Customers have been know to surprise us.... - Werner Vogels

DeWitt Clinton posted a message on Twitter

“Wondering if just because someone else is already doing something if that's a sufficient reason not to do it yourself...”

August 18 at 9:37 am - Link

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I hate to quote Mao but "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend" Trying out different solutions to the same problem can lead to better solutions when we combine the best aspects of both solutions - Adewale Oshineye

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That's encouraging advice -- I like that. - DeWitt Clinton

Given that most of us process a similar set of input stimuli a number of people will come to similar conclusions and have similar ideas, in parallel. One could even argue that to really establish a new idea, multiple individuals need to act and develop in parallel. - Werner Vogels

Good way of looking at it, Werner. I know that I'd be hard pressed to think of a time that I felt I was being truly original, but that's not to say I haven't participated in a few innovations... - DeWitt Clinton

+1 for that quote. - nadim

DeWitt Clinton posted a message

“Just wached USA vs. NED. So sad.”

August 10 at 10:36 pm - Link

USA looked like they were sleepwalking in the second half. Wasting the chance in the 88th minute, then the stupid Bradley yellow card, and a bs Holden foul to set up the tying goal right through the wall. Craptacular. And I don't even follow soccer, football, whatever. - DeWitt Clinton

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But it does make for a very interesting 3rd match. Nigeria is worthy opponent, And the Dutch can still progress to the next round. - Werner Vogels

I'm glad that the Dutch can advance, they earned it from not giving up and mounting that last attack. - DeWitt Clinton

Without a "british" team, I can barely watch. 2012 baybee. - Dion Almaer

Giving up on 2010 already, Dion? - DeWitt Clinton

Werner Vogels posted a message on Twitter

“@timoreilly Those services were impacted, but the retail website did not show noticeable problems because it mostly uses cached data.”

July 21 at 2:56 pm - Link

I guess the message before that didn't make it into the global timeline: @timoreilly S3 is used heavily by a number of services behind Amazon’s retail websites and those services were impacted. - Werner Vogels

Werner Vogels posted a message on Twitter

“http://twitpic.com/4w95 - A hectic day in Seattle is winding down”

July 20 at 10:16 pm - Link

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Awesome view @Werner! Is that from Beacon Hill? Great job responding today BTW. I'd love to talk to YOU about MY use of YOUR cloud! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Actually not Beacon Hill. That looks like Renton area looking Northwest. Mercer Island in middle? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Its from Sommerset in Bellevue, the hill above Factoria. Let have coffee soon. - Werner Vogels

Loic Le Meur posted a message on Twitter

“If you do not see your Twitter avatars in Twhirl it's because Amazon S3 is down according to @centernetworks”

July 20 at 10:24 am - Link

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see http://status.aws.amazon.com/ - Werner Vogels

Werner Vogels posted a message on Twitter

“The one-click buy button in Amazon MP3 is killing me. Another 8 albums.”

July 16 at 5:26 pm - Link

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uh, it's a good thing you work there then! :) - Marshall Kirkpatrick

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seems like this is self induced on so many levels werner ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

Good thing no one else can implement it. (Zing!) - DeWitt Clinton

Marshall: nope, just a regular customer... althought I do believe strongly in eating my own "dog food" - Werner Vogels

DeWitt: anyone can implement it. - Werner Vogels

Werner, you know I love Amazon like family. But I didn't realize it had issued a non-assertion covenant for the 1-click patents. Is that the case? - DeWitt Clinton

I was refering to that others have implemented it (e.g. itunes) - Werner Vogels

Apple paid a licensing fee to do that. : / - DeWitt Clinton

But let's not let that distract from the point -- 1-click buying and DRM-free Amazon mp3 shopping is *wonderful*. I've probably bought 50 albums there already. : ) [Edit, whoops, only a dozen... I thought more.] - DeWitt Clinton

The DRM-free part is addictive. I have multiple players that cannot take wma or aac. Not having to think where you can and cannot play content is the right customer experience. This weekend there was an album I couldn't find DRM free and I reverted back to ordering the CD instead of jumping through the other hoops. - Werner Vogels

I'm a BIG fan of Amazon MP3s. Any plans to move into subscription-based live streaming music? Pandora and Last.fm are cool, but limited mostly to folks in the USA. How do we take live music streaming via subscription-based services to a global audience? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

+1 to DRM free at all costs. If I can't get it on Amazon MP3 store then it is an old fashioned CD and Amazon Prime. Also super happy with the relatively high bitrates of the mp3 store. - DeWitt Clinton

Brian - as usual with questions about Amazon plans :-) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Werner Vogels

Hugh MacLeod posted a message on Twitter

“New York Times on the importance of the good ol' fashioned push-up: http://tinyurl.com/288xod””

July 16 at 7:51 am - Link

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the push up should be everyone's foundation for daily exercise. that and the jump rope are heavily overlooked. Try jumping rope for a solid 3 minutes. Chances are, that you can't. - Carlos Ayala

Need to get going on the push ups again. No time cannot be an excuse naymore. - Muthu Ramadoss

http://www.hundredpushups.com/ - it is a simple & though program (site appreas a bit overloaded at the moment) - Werner Vogels

Werner Vogels posted a message on Twitter

“I guess shiny objects that help define identity and ego trump reason and principle any day.”

July 10 at 11:51 pm - Link

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yeah it's just that we all have very short attention spa.....oooh! shiny!!! - John Goering via twhirl

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Did someone say "shiny objects?" Got my attention. :-) - Robert Scoble

Designers and developers can be paid in shiny -- most times. lol. - Gary Bacon II

whole continents have been conquered with beads and shiny mirrors, so I guess that somewhere there must be a business book based on that approach... - Werner Vogels

But a shiny ego will trump objects everyday too :) - Melle Gloerich

There's a pre-schooler kids show called 'The Shiny Show', if you answer a question correct, the phrase is "Give yourself a Shiny!" Conclusion: This 'shiny' obession starts young! - Charlie Hope via twhirl

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“This was by far the most attention-getting presentation I've seen this year: http://tinyurl.com/67yulh”

July 10 at 1:23 pm - Link

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Lanting's "Life: A Journey through Time" book which is central in his presentations is truly magnificent: http://twurl.nl/11g12u - Werner Vogels

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@rom: I'm convinced that we're in a period of slowly seeing all of our privacy disappear. It's why I'm so public about everything.”

July 3 at 4:30 pm - Link

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Only if we let it happen. There are numerous valid reasons for privacy, and we shouldn't be so cavalier about chucking it away for everyone just because some don't think we need much at the moment. - Logical Extremes

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The very idea and expectation of "privacy" is changing, and it's partly generational. Social software tools (for one) need to provide the full range of robust options, from sharing all like @scobelizer to varying levels of contextual "privacy." But Scoble is right, many kinds of privacy will be taken out of our hands in the name of government security and for the purpose of corporate exploitation. - Dean Terry

Does giving away your privacy make it more likely others will have theirs eroded unwillingly? - Ken Sheppardson

there has go to be a better way - Kim Landwehr

I disagree. The services that care about this stuff will build strong options and protections for shades of public vs private - Don MacAskill

Why do we have expectations of privacy? Openness is desirable. - Sally Robinson

We have expectations of privacy because we expect control over our data. The objection is not to sharing data, but to loss of control - Robert Blum via Alert Thingy

privacy, what the hell is that? I've given up all hope. Sides, it's like a criminal act, if someone really wants something, nothing can stop them. - thecolor

Services that care about their customers have to implement controls. Many jurisdictions have very strict regulations wrt this - Werner Vogels