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This is my second activity on using AWS – this time the use of EBS.
Objectives:

Format a new EBS (10GB) and mount it on a running instance of private AMI (created on first activity – add link/ref to old post)
Setup a MySQL server with the datastore on EBS partition
Setup the partition(EBS) to start [...]

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Here’s my first try working with Amazon Web Services. Covered tasks are the following:
- getting familiar with AWS, specially EC2 and S3.
- working with EC2 instance using CentOS image – search, start/stop, and do some customization of an instance
- create AMIs (private) and start instance from it.
- S3 buckets – upload files.
I based my [...]

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This article is meant to be a quick quide that will introduce the things needed to get you started with Amazon EC2. All this information can be found in the EC2 api docs, and this is not meant to be a replacement of the documentation, just trying to show the things needed in a clear [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth announced last Friday that Ubuntu 9.10 will be named Karmic Koala, and also presented what we should expect from the future version of Ubuntu:

the desktop version will have a new look (more beautiful)
on the server side as everybody these days Ubuntu’s future will be targeting the “cloud”. They will have official supported [...]

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Here is a great chart from James Maguire article “Five Companies Shaping Cloud Computing: Who Wins?”, that provides an overall comparative look at the current vendors in cloud computing:

While you are here you go ahead and read his article also as it has some good information on the future of the “big five” in cloud [...]

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We’ve been investigating the possibilities of using cloud computing for our clients. Especially Amazon EC2 has the potential to be be really effective in offering flexible, pay-as-you-go computing. From my own perspective I have been looking at how to use cloud computing in combination with MySQL and I must say that I’m a bit sceptical [...]

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Any host or system admin hates the words “its not working” or “its down”. When I see a big site take a hit or is town there are two reactions that I generally have:

Site Down – those poor bastards (system admins) their life must suck right now
Site Down – SEE!!! It happens to them [...]

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