ooo something non-regurgitated about EC2… and put in a frame of the rest of the amazon web services!
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5 Excellent Uses for Amazon EC2
Friday, August 25th, 2006
The Test/Development Environment One of those things which is always difficult is putting together the right test environment. Traditionally purchasing a seperate set of hardware, , a seperate datacenter, A developers “local copy,” or something as cheesy as different vhosts on the same machine have been the only real answers. Most of those are grossly [...]
Hey, Look, Trackbacks
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Well I, being the looser that I am, Just figured out trackbacks… SO I expect I’ll be using that feature a lot more
Good commentary
Friday, August 25th, 2006
The Corporate Rat and The Elusive Cheese gets it exactly right in their Amazon EC2 post: Amazon’s S3 and EC2 – classic application long tail Good read
Some comparisons
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Lets make some sample comparisons based on 1 year assumptions High bandwidth (1 Year: 10 servers, 5Tb xfer per month) Low end host – $12,000 Mid end host – $21,600 Amazon EC2 – $128,880 Low bandwidth (1 year: 10 servers, 200Gb xfer per month) Low end host – $12,000 Mid end host – $21,600 Amazon [...]
Eating Amazon EC2 for lunch :D
Friday, August 25th, 2006
At lunch Feedster, and Technorati are neck and neck (well for this past 4 hour stint) with 5 EC2 entries each. Feedster has 3 of the 5 not being junk… Technorati has 5 of 5 not being junk… Of course nothing really new to report on those posts… However 12f does make an interesting point [...]
This is going to save me a lot of headache, and some cash
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Seeing as I just had a 75 ft network cable chewed through which connects my office (upstairs) to the internet connection (cable modem down stairs)… and that I just happen to have bought (a long while back) a second openWRT-able router this article: OpenWRT wifi bridge is going to save me headache, time, and money. [...]
I don’t think I agree
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Blackfriars’ Marketings post: Amazon.com’s EC2 hosting service: technology diworsification mentions the following: Amazon.com has fallen into a strategic trap. Instead of investigating more and better ways to serve its retail customers, it has decided to focus on being a technology company instead, presumably because technology companies often command higher valuations. This EC2 service (even the [...]
Remember when I mentioned that we’ll be seeing some disilusionment?
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Well this morning I found my first piece of it. A blog post (which I’ve since closed and dont feel like finding again) mentioned that the “fly in the ointment” was that he wouldnt be able to load an exceptionally large database into the EC2 grid. The reason for this complaint is the limit of [...]
Condensing the steam (smoke) from this mornings EC2 posts
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Generally speaking there is a bit of comparing EC2 to Suns GRID system… A couple mentions of oracle. A link to a screencast about EC2. A few people griping about the idea that (for now) Microsoft Windows might not be an option on EC2 systems… The most interesting offerings I found this morning were: a [...]