Archive for June, 2009

Is billing Amazon’s Achilles heel ?

Having worked on a number of projects with Amazon Web Services recently the one non-technical thing that has stood out is the billing model that Amazon adopts which basically forces the company to have a credit card available and then Amazon produce an email with the least amount of information possible on it to tell [...]

Cloud Views Conference Presentations

The recent Cloud Views conference presentations can be viewed below:

Prof. Pedro Veiga Presentations / CloudViews.Org – Cloud Computing Conference 2009
View more OpenOffice presentations from Paulo Calçada.

Luis Alves Martins Presentation / CloudViews.Org – Cloud Computing Conference 2009
View more OpenOffice presentations from Paulo Calçada.

Carla Pinheiro Presentation / CloudViews.Org – Cloud Computing Conference 2009
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Amazon EC2 News / Round Up

There is a good PDF whitepaper on using Oracle with Amazon Web Services which can be downloaded here.

A tutorial by Amazon on creating an Active Directory Domain on Amazon EC2 is a thorough article and well worth the read if you intend to implement this functionality on the cloud.

Simon Brunozzi from Amazon gives a good [...]