SimpleDB Releases Query Sort (July 24, 2008)
Amazon SimpleDB has released a highly requested feature: Query Sort.  Query Sort allows you to sort a Query result set on a single attribute, in ascending or descending order.  This new feature extends SimpleDB's existing Query functionality and provides even more flexibility for developers.

Cloud Architectures White Paper (PDF) (July 16, 2008)
In this white paper, AWS Technical Evangelist Jinesh Varia outlines the benefits of building architectures in the cloud, documents a Hadoop-run application (GrepTheWeb) with architecture diagrams, and discovers best practices for using Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, and SimpleDB. View the two-part HTML version: Cloud Architectures and AWS Best Practices.

Using Amazon SQS to Scale EC2 Applications (July 1, 2008)
The Amazon SQS team have released several new resources to showcase the value of using their message queuing service in the cloud with Amazon EC2-powered applications. This white paper outlines high-level benefits of incorporating asynchronous message queuing with Amazon EC2; a new developer article focuses on implementing auto-scaling with Amazon SQS; and a sample application to get you started.

JBoss on Amazon EC2 (June 17, 2008)
Red Hat has announced their second offering on Amazon EC2 - JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Now available on EC2's flexible, pay-as-you-go computing environment, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform provides developers with the most popular clustered Java EE application server and next generation application frameworks to build innovative and scalable Java applications. Learn more.