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TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » Amazon Launches EBS - Persistant Storage for EC2

  • EBS provides a much higher level of performance comparable to high-grade local storage in terms of both access times and availability.
  • The most obvious is the ability to now run high-performance and high-availability database instances, which is an essential part of the standard LAMP or RubyOnRails stack that many web applications use.
03 Jul 08

ACM Queue - A Conversation with Werner Vogels: Amazon's CTO explains what's behind its growth from online bookstore to e-commerce juggernaut.

  • The Amazon development environment requires engineers and architects to be very independent creative thinkers. We are building things that nobody else has done before, so you need to be able to think outside the box.
  • We are a strongly customer-oriented company, and we often use the "working from the customer backwards" approach.
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ACM Queue - A Conversation with Werner Vogels: Amazon's CTO explains what's behind its growth from online bookstore to e-commerce juggernaut.

  • These are very hard questions, and we have no simple answers. Testing in a very large-scale distributed setting is a major challenge.

ACM Queue - A Conversation with Werner Vogels: Amazon's CTO explains what's behind its growth from online bookstore to e-commerce juggernaut.

  • If you hit the Amazon.com gateway page, the application calls more than 100 services to collect data and construct the page for you.
11 May 08

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Persisting your data after terminating ...

  • Amazon doesn't provide any mechanism to persist data. If you don't want to deploy a cluster solution or even simple replication, what you could do is at least flush the database logs every few minutes and immediately upload the new log files into S3. You could also do the same for full backup dumps every few hours.
09 May 08

Experiments with Running WordpressMU on EC2 « Hefta-Gaub Development Blog [Anonymoused]

  • Sure, they have disk space when they’re running, but as soon as they shut down that disk image is gone FOREVER
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