Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing on Jun 23rd, 2009
Amazon’s AWS Management Console now supports the company’s CloudFront service, a CDN-like extension for the Simple Storage Service (S3).
You can read about this new feature on the AWS Blog and watch an introductory video here.
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing on Jun 8th, 2009
An interesting post with some drawbacks of cloud computing and EC2, from those in the trenches: Real-world cloud computing.
There are some real gems here, such as:
[They all] used Amazon services, and most if not all of them seemed to use RightScale to manage them.
Cost: cloud is more expensive than real machines. Cloud is good for [...]
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing on May 27th, 2009
A major barrier to moving your data to an online storage location like Amazon’s S3 can be the time it takes to push large numbers of bytes through your upstream Internet connection. While your connection may be fast enough to keep your data fresh and in-sync from day to day, it can be painful to [...]
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing on May 20th, 2009
Amazon recently released three major new features for their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service — New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch. These beta services are immediately available to anyone with an EC2 account and server instances located in the US (sorry EU folks, they are US-only for now). [...]
JetS3t (jet-set) version 0.7.1 is now available. This is the latest version of my open source Java S3 library and application suite.
Visit the JetS3t web site to download the new version, run the updated online applications, or read the latest documentation: http://jets3t.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
This version includes bug fixes and support for the CloudFront service’s new Access Logs [...]
Posted in AWS on May 3rd, 2009
Do you use Amazon Web Services for research purposes at a university, or as part of a university course?
If so, you should look into Amazon’s new AWS in Education initiative which provides AWS service credits to members of the academic community. You can apply for credit programs designed for researchers, educators, student groups, or [...]