Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 20 Feb 2009
In this post I will walk you through the high level of securing a normal tiered application running on EC2. First I will cover the basics of what EC2 provides and then briefly discuss how this can be used in a real life scenario. Security Groups For Network security EC2 provides a security groups, security [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 18 Feb 2009
One of the interesting things about the Amazon success story is that the EC2 virtual server technology is often assumed to originally have been an overspill from Amazon’s own network and that Amazon sold the extra capacity that it had available and that was not being used at peak times. I guess we’ll never know [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 10 Feb 2009
Each AMI instance on EC2 is assigned two IP addresses and corresponding DNS names. A public IP address that is accessable over the internet and an internal IP address only accessable inside internal EC2 regional network. You don’t have any control over the internal IP address and it is assigned randomly when you start the [...]
Amazon Web Services admin on 06 Feb 2009
One thing hit me when I was working with EC2 and I wanted to find some information about the instance itself. This did not seem to be readily available and I spent a frustrating 45 minutes trying to get what I was looking for. Eventually I found a very easy way to get the amazon [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 21 Jan 2009
In case you missed it, Amazon have released a web based management console. You can see a Flash video of this in action here. Does this signal the death knell for ElasticFox and Ylastic ? Only time will tell, but Amazon’s strategy of providing tools and going up against its partners is a fine [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 20 Jan 2009
Many organisations are used to using virtualisation in-house probably from the use of VMWare. Often the organisational need is to move an existing virtualised application hosted on VMWare to a cloud provider, such as EC2. If this is your scenario, standards won’t help but you can still achieve what you need to do. The basic [...]
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