Amazon is constantly improving their web services offerings, so it's easy to miss some great innovations if you don't pay close attention. To give you a quick overview of what recently happened in the storage arena, lets take a look back and see what kinds of new tools are at our disposal.
As was announced yesterday by AWS, CloudFront was recently upgraded. Among a 25% price reduction for CloudFront requests it now features HTTPS connection support. This is particularly interesting to content distributors, video transmission systems or just about any kind of sensitive transfer of data on the web.
This comes right after the RRS feature announcement that S3 storage can now be used at a 33% reduced rate when no high level redundancy is required for the stored content - great for storing low risk regenerable data such as thumbnails, new bandwidth threshold price cuts - effectively letting you reach higher mass discount levels quicker, and last but not least the groundbreaking file versioning option that was introduced along with multi factor authentication.
Now especially the versioning with MFA is worthy an article on its own which may soon be available on this blog, but for now, let's just say that it's the the storage safety you never could afford, made available at a discount price. With versioning enabled S3 can store every iteration of your file similar as a version control system, storing only the delta of two file versions - which can mean big savings on storage. MFA means you can adjust S3 to require a special persmission from a user before he can delete content. This permission is granted only once the user has provided a password as well as a cryptographic timecode that constantly changes on an inexpensive keychain device like this. No more accidental or unapproved deletions from your S3 buckets.
Storage and transfer are very important areas of Cloud Computing, where we constantly find room for improvement over traditional hardware setups. The impact these technologies can have on everyday business can be enormous.
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