Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Big data + Little pipe? Try S3 Ingestion

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 … Continue reading

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New EC2 Services: Monitor, Scale and Load Balance Your Instances

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 … Continue reading

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How to use JetS3t with Eucalyptus

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. … Continue reading

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