Amazon Web Services Blog: Wanted: AWS Architecture Blog Posts & Diagrams (2)
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From time to time, potential users of AWS ask me about the best way to set up a highly scalable architecture using Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS. I'd like to challenge readers of this blog to document their AWS-powered architectures in a blog post, preferably with a diagram, and to leave comments with a link back to their posts. I'll collect them all up in a future post. Here are a few that I ...
Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows (30)
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We're getting ready to enable the use of Microsoft Windows Server on Amazon EC2 later this Fall. You will be able to use Amazon EC2 to host highly scalable ASP.NET sites, high performance computing (HPC) clusters, media transcoders, SQL Server, and more. You can run Visual Studio (or another development environment) on your desktop and run the finished code in the Amazon cloud. The 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Server will be available ...
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Christian said:
Du windows sur Amazon EC2 !
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AndrewBadera said:
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! "The 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Server will be available and will be able to use all existing EC2 features such as Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and the Elastic Block Store. You'll be able to call any of the other Amazon Web Services from your application. You will, for example, be able to use the Amazon Simple Queue Service to glue cross-platform applications together.Existing EC2 tools will be able to launch Windows-powered EC2 instances. Once launched, you can use the Windows Remote Desktop or the rdesktop tool to access your instances."
New Release of DevPay - Lower Fees and Reduced Risk (2)
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Amazon DevPay is pretty cool. It allows developers to use Amazon's billing and account management to layer their own business models on top of Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. Developers using DevPay include SmugMug (for SmugVault), Wowza Media Systems, Red Hat, and SearchBlox. Earlier today we rolled out a brand new release of DevPay. The new release has two important new features, lower fees and reduced risk. How, you may ask, are lower fees a ...
Amazon Web Services Blog: New AWS Web Site & AWS Quick Reference Cards (5)
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Earlier this week we launched a revised version of the AWS web site. The new site offers better navigation and easier access to the content related to each service. All of the relevant options and links are available in a series of convenient pull-down menus. It is now much easier to find AWS news, events, and media coverage. Dedicated sections on the right side provide convenient access to information of interest to developers (including the ...
Amazon Web Services Blog: Oracle Enters the AWS Cloud (13)
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We've been working with Oracle to bring a number of their products into the cloud. The first fruits of this work are now ready: cloud-compatible licensing, EC2 AMIs preloaded with a variety of Oracle products, support programs, backup to the cloud, and a cloud management portal. As more and more enterprises take a look at the Amazon Web Services, they invariably ask about packaged software, particularly databases. With this announcement, AWS users now gain access ...
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I admit, I don't know if this is big news or not, but I didn't see it coming.
We're Never Content (3)
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We've got something new and cool in the works and I'm excited to be able to tell you a little bit about it today! Before the end of the year we are planning to release a new service for content delivery. This new (and as yet unnamed) service will provide you with a high performance way to distribute popular, publicly readable content to your customers all over the world, with low latency and high data ...
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Joe said:
Wow A-CDN..... look out Akamai
Friday Fun Fest - A Plethora of Interesting AWS Stuff (4)
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It is time for one of my inbox-clearing blog posts once again. Here's a bunch of cool stuff that you might like: Benjamin Kudria just wrapped up an internship at the New York Times. He wrote a detailed recap of his experience and noted that he had the opportunity to use Amazon EC2 and S3. As he notes, "had never worked with AWS before, and I was amazed at how easy it was to have ...
AWS Security White Paper (14)
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As more and more developers look to put AWS to use in various ways, questions about security practices and policies come to our attention from time to time. We've just published the first version of the AWS Security white paper. The paper provides answers to a number of questions about certifications, physical security, backups, and issues specific to particular services. -- Jeff;
Mux - Video Transcoding Powered by EC2 (1)
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The first time you try to create your own online video, you will quickly find out that there are all sorts of interesting tradeoffs between file format, bit rate, and file size. The encoding process always seems to require all of your CPU speed and I/O bandwidth, and then some, while still taking a considerable amount of clock time. The developers behind Cruxy apparently faced this problem on a regular basis. After creating an internal ...
Amazon SimpleDB Query Tutorials (1)
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In order to allow developers to gain a better understanding of the Amazon SimpleDB Query language, we have just posted a pair of tutorials: In Query 101: Building Amazon SimpleDB Queries, you will learn about the basic principles of the language, including the comparison and set operators, and how to use them in simple and range queries. With that as a base, you will then learn about multi-valued queries, which (naturally enough) operate on SimpleDB ...
SimpleDB Domain Metadata Spec - Your Input Needed (1)
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The team behind Amazon SimpleDB is in the process of designing and implementing a new API call. The new call will return information about a particular SimpleDB domain. They have posted the design spec to the SimpleDB forum and would be very interested in receiving some more feedback. I've said it before and I'll say it again -- much of what we do at Amazon is driven by real feedback from real customers. If you ...
Amazon Web Services Blog: Cloudbursting - Hybrid Application Hosting (22)
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I get to meet with lots of developers and system architects as part of my job. Talking to them about cloud computing and about the Amazon Web Services is both challenging and rewarding. Cloud computing as a concept is still relatively new. When I explain what it is and what it enables, I can almost literally see the light bulbs lighting up in people's heads as they understand cloud computing and our services, and what ...
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Amazon Web Services Blog: The Emerging Cloud Service Architecture (5)
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I'm going to go out on a limb today and try to paint a picture of where some of this cool and crazy cloud-based infrastructure may be going. While none of what I will write about is idle speculation, it is based on just a few data points, and may be totally off base. However, I do get to talk to plenty of entrepreneurs and developers on a daily basis, and I am starting to ...
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Gary Burge said:
This is an intelligent analysis of the future of "the cloud".
RightScale Webinar: Leveraging Amazon's Elastic Block Store (4)
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The folks at RightScale will be conducting a webinar on Thursday, August 28th at 10 AM PDT. They'll focus on the recently announced Amazon Elastic Block Store, discussing application scenarios, mission-critical deployment, architecture, and design considerations. Michael Crandell (RightScale CEO) and Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale CTO) will present. The webinar is free, but space is limited and pre-registration is recommended. -- Jeff;
Amazon SimpleDB Releases QueryWithAttributes (9)
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Amazon SimpleDB just released an update that includes a new feature called QueryWithAttributes. With this update, developers will be now able to retrieve all the information associated with items returned as a response to a particular query. The feature provides additional flexibility because it enables you to retrieve anywhere between one and all attributes for each item. This highly requested feature simplifies application development process for all clients of Amazon SimpleDB. Instead of issuing a ...
Redundant Disk Storage Across Multiple EC2 (3)
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XML Hacker M. David Peterson has put together a really interesting article. As part of his work at 3rd and Urban, he has implemented redundant, fault-tolerant, read-write disk storage on Amazon EC2 using a number of open source tools and applications including LVM, DRBD, NFS, Heartbeat, and VTUN. Mark notes that "the primary focus of this paper is to present both a detailed overview as well as a working code base that will enable you ...
Amazon EBS - Tool and Library Support (18)
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This is a companion post to my earlier post -- Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data. In the other post you can read about the features of EBS. This post goes into more detail on the tool and library support that has been built by our community of third-party developers. Here are some tools: The RightScale Dashboard includes complete support for EBS. RightScale founder Thorsten von Eicken has written a pair ...
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CB said:
Amazon EBS (Persistent storage on EC2), and the (3rd party) tools support this new feature
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data (37)
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A few months ago I talked about our plans to offer a persistent storage feature for Amazon EC2. At that time I indicated that the service was in a limited alpha release with a small number of customers. Since then the alpha testers have been putting the service to good use and have provided us with a lot of very helpful feedback. As of today, the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is now open and ...
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nybble said:
Unbelievable, this is amazing. I wish they'd give sample cost estimates - I/O requests is an interesting metric to charge by. Snapshots is really great.
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cb160 said:
Lack Persistant disk storage was one of the features that made running a traditional app on EC2 difficult. Now Amazon have added it with Elastic Block Store, that problem has gone away.Startup infrastructure costs just dropped to 0.
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Nico said:
wow.
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mndoci said:
It's here!!!
Vertica / Sonian / Amazon Webinar (2)
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Earlier this year I talked about the unique and powerful AWS-powered solutions offered by Vertica and Sonian. Tomorrow (August 21st), I will be taking part in a unique, three-party webinar. In the webinar you'll get to hear from me, from Vertica Field Engineering Director Omer Trajman, and from Sonian CTO Greg Arnette. The webinar will start at 8 AM PST. In the webinar you will learn how cloud computing is changing the economics of data ...
