While reviewing our Amazon S3 account earlier this week, I came across an old unused bucket that had apparently sat dormant for an embarrassingly long time. As great as cloud hosting may be, paying for excess stuff you don’t use or need is simply idiotic – hence my determination to rid this problem in 5 minutes.
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If there’s anything watching the news has taught me, it’s that excessive spending and uncontrolled growth will ultimately lead to a big crash. Sure, when the times are good and your customers are paying for your R&D, growth or fancy company retreats, more = better. However, during the tough times when most people are double clipping their cash to make sure it stays in their pocket, have excess fat on your operations could cost ya in the long run and chances are the government will not bail YOU out.
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AWS has launched this years AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest for entrepreneurs and start-ups that will award the winner $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, a potential investment offer from Amazon.com, and more. Submissions will be accepted until October 3, 2008.
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