Some PaaS-Related News from This Week

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Some PaaS-Related News from This Week

03.23.2012
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Amazon Web Services

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Amazon's CloudFront has changed the minimum time for edge locations cached objects from 60 minutes to zero seconds.  


Amazon RDS Increases Backup Retention Period
RDS increased the backup retention period, allowing you to restore your database instance up to the last five minutes.

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