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 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 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 […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 Instance Types: Even Larger Now
As I have been playing around with EC2 one of things that seemed to be missing were bigger instances with more CPU and memory. Amazon describes their base instance as “One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.” and has 1.7GB of RAM. That […]
Read moreAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
I have been following Amazon’s EC2 system for a couple months now. Been looking for an excuse to try it out. Now that Agent Scoreboard is live I needed to find a new Linux server to develop on and figured this would be the perfect project. If you haven’t heard of EC2 before it is […]
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