Archive for the tag 'Amazon'

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 [...]

Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Applications for the Cloud

This session was presented at Cloud Slam 09 by Nati Shalom CTO of GigaSpaces. It provides a practical guideline addressing the common challenges of developing and deploying an existing enterprise application on the cloud. Additionally, you will get the opportunity for hands-on experience running and deploying production ready applications in a matter of minutes on [...]

London Amazon Web Services Startup Event Videos

For those of you who missed the Amazon Web Services startup event in London, you can find the customer presentations on Slideshare.net. And view the videos from the links below: Cedric Roll, Co-Founder, ORbyte Solutions http://www.vimeo.com/4409867 Felipe Padilla, Co-Founder, Skipso http://www.vimeo.com/4409569 Nigel Hamilton, CEO, Turbo10.com http://www.vimeo.com/4409682 Simone Brunozzi, Getting Started with AWS http://www.vimeo.com/4411474 Tal Saraf, Accelerating Your Website with CloudFront http://www.vimeo.com/4409756

Using Amazon EC2 for PCI DSS compliant applications

Compliance and regulatory concerns are often voiced when it comes to Cloud Computing, and often many of the interesting types of applications organisations would like to deploy to the cloud are  often those governed by some form of regulatory standard. Lets look in more details at one of these. PCI DSS is a set of comprehensive requirements [...]

Overcoming the EC2 Windows AMI 10GB limit

Amazon limit the Windows AMI instance to 10GB in size which almost makes the image unusable if you try and add other software within the windows C Drive. Windows is notoriously heavy on disk space and whereas 10 GB may seem a lot believe us, it isn’t when it comes to windows and a combination [...]

McKinsey Cloud research kicks up a storm

A research paper on Cloud Computing by McKinsey & Company entitled ‘Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing’ has kicked up a right old storm with various luminaries either for or against it. The premise of the results of the article are that for large organisations, if they adopt the cloud model, then they would be [...]

Mosso come out fighting against S3 / Cloudfront with Cloudfiles and Limelight

Mosso are certainly not intent on letting Amazon have everything their own way, posting on their blog, Top 10 Reasons why Cloud Files + Limelight offers a better experience than S3 + CloudFront. Competition is a great leveler and fuels innovation so I am glad to Mosso taking the lead here. The reasons that they give are reproduced [...]

What happens when the Cloud goes wrong ?

 It is great enthusing about the benefits of Cloud Computing, but what are the consequences when it goes wrong ? Of course, there are different levels of  ’going wrong’. We have often publicised outages from the likes of Amazon and Google, but given the publicised SLA’s of each some down time is expected. However things can get [...]

When Does Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Pricing Save Money?

The simple answer is 4643. Amazon recently announced new pricing option where you reserve an instance for one or three years and then have discount on the hourly rate. The table below describes  the cost per year if the instance is up for the whole year. Instance Type Cost/Year On Demand instance $ Cost/Year for [...]

Is it Grid or is it Cloud ?

A recent post by the Cloud vendor CohesiveFT talks about the potential changes in technical sales cycles when evaluating Grid based products. I’m not sure I agree totally with the article, but the ethos behind the article i.e. making it easier to trial products, try out solutions and build apps /services quicker to be build internal business cases is [...]