Category: News

Open Letter to Rep. Webb on HB60

I just sent this email to Rep. Webb. I’ll be updating this post with any replies or conversation that continues as a result.


Subject: HP60 questions

Hello Representative Webb,

I'd like to better understand how HB60 benefits citizens and businesses in Utah. It seems like it hinders competition between ISPs which means higher prices for Internet access.

For example, let's say people or businesses in an area (business park, new house development, or existing neighborhood) want to foot the bill to have fiber installed and allow those people or businesses in that area to connect using an ISP of their choosing. Allowing this extra competition between ISPs means lower Internet costs for those people or businesses in this scenario.
It appears that this bill prevents such a thing from happening with no real benefit to the people.

I figure I must be missing something, will you please help me to understand why HB60 is a good thing?

I'm anxiously awaiting your reply.

Thanks,
Michael

President
Millcreek Systems, Inc.

Amazon Lowers S3 pricing

It seems like Amazon is always giving you more bang for your buck.  Today, they reduced S3 pricing.  Here is how they’re changing effective Feb. 1:

                          Old         New
First 1TB           $0.140    $0.125
Next 49TB         $0.125    $0.110
Next 450TB       $0.110    $0.095
Next 500TB       $0.095    $0.090
Next 4000TB     $0.080    $0.080 (no change)
Over 5000TB     $0.055    $0.055 (no change)

Here is where you can get full Amazon S3 price details for all regions.

 

Amazon AWS announces Support for DynamoDB

I logged into one of my AWS accounts this morning and what did I see?  A brand new feature staring at me!

As it says, DynamoDB is a “Fast, Predictable, Highly-Scalable NoSQL Data Store”  Which really means a highly available key-value store.  Amazon has been using DynamoDB for the underlying storage technology for core parts of amazon.com for years.

Here’s Amazon’s page on DynamoDB.

You can read more technical details about DynamoDB here – http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html