I’m sure almost everyone is aware at this point on the failure that caused Amazon cloud computing solution AWS to be down yesterday (and still is at some smaller extend happening at this time as we can see on their status page) for most of the day. This has affected a few big (Reddit, Foursquare, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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