The online retailer said Friday that on its peak day, Dec. 15, it received more than 6.3 million orders, at a record pace of 72.9 items per second.

The AMI ids of really good ubuntu machines

"Getting multiple IPN responses in sandbox for Simple Pay "

How much faster? Lots. Here are my numbers for serving a one pixel .gif

I do have to give both Google and Amazon some credit, though. Both noticed that the only ones to make any real money off of the California gold rush were the outfitters who sold mining equipment.

Setting up and running an ec2 instance from the command line. I always forget how the initial setup works.

This article shows you how updating your AMIs' content at startup from Amazon S3 is a cost-effective way to maintain web sites and other services on Amazon EC2.