With their promise of massive scalability and high availability, Amazon Web Services (AWS) are getting a lot of attention from PHP developers. In particular, EC2 can run fully optimized and configured PHP environments that can be used to test and deploy applications without the headaches of hardware provisioning and management. But developers have been left with the chore of building and finely tuning these PHP images. No more! Zend has built a full-featured Zend Server CE Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that can be spun up and ready to do your bidding within minutes. In this article, I'll show how easy it is to find and launch this AMI. []
You’ve probably heard about ‘the cloud’. It’s the latest buzzword circulating in Silicon Valley and beyond. In some ways, ‘cloud’ is a fitting name- everyone sees something different when they look at it. For example, offerings as dissimilar as force.com and Amazon’s MapReduce service have worked their way in to ‘the cloud’ moniker at some point. Even the cloud’s biggest advocates can’t agree on what ‘the cloud’ is. But in teasing the facts out of all the hype, you’ll find some services that could change how you write and deploy your PHP applications forever. []
Zend Framework 1.7.0 has been released and is now available from the Zend Framework download site []
Fire up the download clients, Zend Framework 1.6 RC 1 is now available. There’s nothing better than fresh code! []
We couldn’t be happier to announce that Zend Framework 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is now available from the Zend Framework download site! []

Zend Framework 1.0.4 is now available!

It is our pleasure to announce the release of Zend Framework 1.0.4! You can download this new mini-release now from the ZF download site. With this mini-release we bid a fond farewell to the 1.0 branch as we move on to the 1.5 release. []
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Wil Sinclair is currently working on technologies that facilitate and encourage cloud adoption in the PHP community as the Cloud Strategist in Residence at Zend Technologies.

He brings 10 years of experience in the software industry at companies from the smallest startups to the largest multinationals such as Oracle and Amazon. Most recently he served as project lead on the leading PHP framework: Zend Framework.

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We’ve gotten a lot of feedback since the 1.0 release of Zend Framework in June. Our developers have come to love the power and flexibility of our framework, which has dramatically simplified hundreds of projects ranging from the rich interfaces of fledgling Web 2.0 businesses to integration with legacy systems in the enterprise. Some developers, however, have been looking for a little more guidance on best practices for project structure, convenience, and a shorter time-to-Hello-World (TTHW) in Zend Framework. []