Amazon EC2 is now out of Beta after two year and now gets an SLA. Service Commitments and Service Credits If the Annual Uptime Percentage for a customer drops below 99.95% for the Service Year, that customer is eligible to receive a Service Credit equal to 10% of their bill for the Eligible Credit Period. […]
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Amazon EC2 Running Windows Server: Coming Soon
Amazon has announced that later this fall that they will offer the ability to run Windows Server and SQL Server in the EC2 environment.
Read moreAmazon EC2 High-CPU Instances Available
Amazon announces that they are making another type of EC2 instances available. These instances have proportionally more CPU resources than RAM (compared to our Standard Instances) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications such as rendering, search indexing, and computational analysis. These new instances include High-CPU Medium and Extra Large Instances – the Extra Large […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 and Persistent Storage
Amazon announces that they will have support for persistent storage in an upcoming release. Right now it is being used privately by a handful of EC2 users. This new feature provides reliable, persistent storage volumes, for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These volumes exist independently from any Amazon EC2 instances, and will behave like raw, […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 Availability Zones
Amazon announces the creation of availability zones for the EC2 system. Amazon describes them as “distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other availability zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other availability zones in the same region”. With new web service calls you can choose what zone your […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses
One of the problems with Amazon EC2 was the dynamic nature of the IP address that you received for each instance you started up. For development it isn’t a big problem, but for a production system you can see the problems this can cause if you instance fails for some reason. This morning Amazon announced […]
Read moreNew York Times and Amazon EC2 and S3
I came across an interesting article on the New York Times site that talks about how they used Amazon EC2 and S3 to help make their articles from 1851 -1922 available to the public online. There was a total of 11 million articles. They had to take sometimes several TIFF images and scale and glue […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 and Zillow
In an articles on Forbes.com, “The Death of Hardware”, they discuss Zillow and their recent use of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform to recalculate the values of some 67 million homes for their site. Zillow estimated the task would take 6 months and millions of dollars before they went with the EC2 platform which was […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 and Email
Right now we are just running the Agent Scoreboard development box on EC2. Eventually I want to move our production system to the platform for the scalability that it offers. The main problem I have come up against was email delivery from the system. Emails sent to a gmail.com account and a couple others were […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 and Firefox Plugin UI
Since the EC2 platform is administered via web services some people have come out with some handy tools to make it easier. If you are running Firefox this one is a must have. Sure beats the dos based tools that I started using. This tool is useful even if all you do is start it […]
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