Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in Cloud Computing, Eucalyptus, JetS3t, Tips on Apr 30th, 2009
Updated 2009-06-22: Added settings that limit JetS3t to a single HTTP connection at a time, to work around apparent thread-safety issues in Walrus.
Eucalyptus is a relatively new but rapidly developing open-source system for running your own cloud computing clusters. There have been some exciting announcements recently around this project: it has been added to Ubuntu [...]
Posted in AWS on Apr 14th, 2009
Other AWS news that I haven’t yet mentioned…
HIPAA Compliance
Amazon has announced a white paper: Creating HIPAA-Compliant Medical Data Applications with Amazon Web Services.
My JetS3t Java library is mentioned in the blog post among the tools that allow you to easily encrypt data that you store in S3. Check out the JetS3t website or discussion [...]
Posted in AWS on Apr 14th, 2009
Amazon’s SQS messaging service has been updated with some interesting new features, as announced in the AWS blog post Powerful New Amazon SQS Features.
Access Permissions
The original release of SQS allowed users to set access permissions for their message queues so that third-parties could participate in their messaging system. This feature was deprecated by Amazon in [...]
Posted in AWS on Apr 14th, 2009
Grig Gheorghiu of the Agile Testing blog has a very good post about his experiences deploying large-scale applications on Amazon’s EC2 service: Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2. Lots of great tips here.
I am keen to try out Amazon’s new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse which adds EC2 instance management and direct deployment into the Eclipse IDE.
However, I have just wasted my afternoon trying to upgrade to a new version of Eclipse that:
Is version 3.3 or later, to be compatible with Amazon’s toolkit
Includes the Web Tools Platform, ditto
Actually [...]
Posted in AWS on Apr 1st, 2009
To celebrate the three year birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon has announced reduced pricing for uploads for the next three months. From April to June 2009, uploads into S3 will cost 3¢ per Gigabyte instead of 10¢.
The announcement is at the top of the Amazon S3 home page and the service’s pricing [...]