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Trying out Windows on EC2
Amazon announced today that you can run Windows on EC2. I'm giving this a go, as being able to spin up virtual Windows boxes on the other side of the world might come in handy one day. I don't see a HOWTO on Amazon's site, so here's a log of my attempt to
How to create an EC2 AMI
you will need to download the EC2 command line tools & then set them up. For instructions on how to setup the EC2 tools, read this.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows
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 fro
AWS Quick Reference Cards
Available in PDF form, the cards summarize the most important data types, function calls, and command line tools for each service. Cards are now available for AAWS, DevPay, EC2, FWS, Mechanical Turk, and SQS, with more to follow before too long.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) gives you persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage which you can attach to a running instance of EC2.
Scaling Amazon EC2 to 512 active nodes
The performance degradation of 3 seconds (about 20%) should be considered minor given roughly 250-fold increase in scale. The curve rises two times: in the ranges 2-8 and 256-512, while 8-256 remains almost flat.
Splunk Your Distributed Logs in EC2
Managing logs is hard as it is, and now imagine you have several (dozen) servers in EC2, the process becomes a chore, the debugging is hard, and frustration abounds.
Amazon AWS s3 ec2 / Google App Engine / Media Temple / Mosso CloudFS Comparison - Rob Gonda's Blog
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JBoss AMI - Apache, MySql, ModJK and SmartEC2 Deployment Tool
This AMI is built on top of the Jboss AMI.
Following softwares are available as part of this AMI.
MySql 5, SmartEC2 Deployment Tool, s3cmd
JumpBox for Ruby on Rails Deployment
The JumpBox for Ruby on Rails is a self-contained Ubuntu Linux environment that, upon startup, immediately hosts fully functioning Apache, Ruby, MySQL, and Ruby On Rails environments
Top 10 Companies Currently in the Cloud
# The NY Times
# Nasdaq
# Major League Baseball
# ESPN
# Hasbro
# British Telecom
# Taylor Woodrow
# CSS
# Activision
# Business Objects (A SAP Company)
Moodle Open Source E-Learning Heads for the Cloud
Infinity Learning Solutions has announced a cloud computing solution for Moodle leveraging the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.
Jollat - AWS made easy
Jollat is a cross-platform graphical client for Amazon Web Services (AWS). It let's you manage Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Clouds (EC2). Easy-to-use GUI, enabling you to do complicated tasks with the simple click of a button.
Comparison: GoGrid Cloud versus Amazon EC2 | GoGrid Blog
As GoGrid continues its record breaking sign-ups, we get asked repeatedly how we compare against Amazon’s EC2. While not exactly an apples to apples comparison, there are enough similarities to warrant a few matrices to illustrate the differences.
AppDrop
AppDrop is a proof-of-concept, to show that Google's App Engine platform can be ported to other hosts.
Eucalyptus: An Unsung Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing 'cloud computing' on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface.
CloudComputing SaaS: GoGrid Hits 1000 Customer Mark
GoGrid is a cheaper and easier alternative to EC2. It also has a GUI-based control panel, simplifying the process of setting up your network of machines with load balancers, web servers and database servers in either Linux flavors or Windows.
Amazon EC2’s spam and malware problems
He goes on to discuss how EC2 space is now actively blocked by Outblaze, and has been listed by Spamhaus in their PBL list.
Auto-Scaling Web Sites Using Amazon EC2 and Scalr
By using Scalr, you can create a server farm that uses prebuilt AMIs for load balancing, web servers, and databases. You also can customize a generic AMI, which you can use to host your actual application.
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These charts display real-time health status and the last twenty four hours of health history for key Amazon Web Services. Click a Service in the left panel for detailed service health status, metrics, and more history. More information on CloudStatus.
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