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• Amazon EC2 extends 'reserved instances' to Europe

  Amazon is now offering the "reserved instances" pricing plan for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to European customers, according to a post on the official Amazon Web Services blog.

• SaaS vendor converts offering to packaged software

  In the past few years a rush of software vendors have latched onto the software-as-a-service bandwagon, converting packaged software offerings for use in the Web-hosted model.

• Amazon automates Hadoop use for developers

  Amazon.com has launched a hosted service designed to simplify for developers the use of the Hadoop implementation of the MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets in processor clusters.

• Amazon unveils EC2 plug-in for Eclipse

  Amazon Web Services is hoping to entice more Java developers to build applications and services on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with a new plug-in for the popular Eclipse Java IDE (integrated development environment).

• Startup launches social Web video analytics

  Sydney-based video technology company Vquence has launched a social video metrics product dubbed VQmetrics aimed at making sense of social video marketing.

• Cloud provider 3Tera announces 'five nines' SLA

  Cloud-computing provider 3Tera announced this week that beginning in April, its Virtual Private Datacenter service will offer a 99.999 percent SLA (service-level agreement).

• Open source ERP on Amazon EC2

  Compiere stepped into the cloud by making its open source ERP wares available on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

• Amazon releases point-and-click console for EC2

  Amazon has released a new Web-based management console for the company's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, which provides scalable application and service delivery, according to an official blog post Thursday.

• Amazon extends EC2 cloud platform to Europe

  Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform for scalable, pay-as-you-go application and service delivery is now available in Europe, the company said Wednesday.

• Amazon opens up beta of Windows Server, SQL Server on EC2

  Amazon Web Services Thursday launched a public beta of its cloud-computing service running Windows Server and SQL Server, marking the first time developers and businesses can use the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to build and host applications on Microsoft's software.

• Amazon's EC2 plays nice with Windows

  Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted infrastructure service for developers will expand its choice of operating systems and databases to include Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server.