Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, JetS3t on Jan 10th, 2010
As of a couple of weeks ago the latest version of JetS3t 0.7.2 has been available as a public release. In the pre-holiday rush I forgot to post a notification to my own blog.
This release includes some bug fixes, more sophisticated configuration options for the “filecomparer” component that manages file synchronizations, and supports the two [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing on Jul 14th, 2009
Rackspace has launched a public beta of their Cloud Servers API.
The Cloud Servers product allows you to rent computing resources and is a competitor to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Rackspace has a comparison page that describes, from their perspective, the advantages of their offering over EC2.
Some key differences from EC2 include:
Cloud Servers has [...]
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). [...]