Cloud admin on 03 Jun 2010
In a recent post CenterNetworks noted that the Amazon S3 service is showing elevated error rates. They noticed that several images were not loading correctly and they heard from multiple CN readers with the same issue on their sites.
They note the issues seem only to be hitting the U.S. Standard centers — other S3 [...]
Amazon Web Services admin on 19 May 2010
introduce a new storage option for Amazon S3 called Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than the standard storage of Amazon S3. It provides a cost-effective solution for distributing or sharing content that is durably stored elsewhere, or for storing [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Jun 2009
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 [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 29 Mar 2009
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 below [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 12 Mar 2009
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) is a new type of storage designed specifically for Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS allows you to create volumes that can be mounted as devices by EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes behave as if they were raw unformatted external hard drives and can be formatted using a file system such [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 27 Feb 2009
Amazon is currently the big bear of Cloud Computing Platforms. It’s web services division has proved disruptive and consistently shown innovation and breadth of services within its platform. It is growing at a rapid rate. Forty per cent of Amazon’s cross revenues are from its 3rd party merchants. Amazon Web Services is an extension of [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 15 Feb 2009
An interesting post asked the question why Amazon S3 is considered cheaper than the alternative - excerpt below:
With a price tag of $0.150/GB/month, storing 1TB of data costs around $150/month on Amazon S3. But this is a recurring amount. So, for the same amount of data it would cost $1800/year and $3600/2-years. And this doesn’t [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 29 Jan 2009
There are a number of options if you want to explore open source cloud. Below we touch open just a few:
Eucalyptus framework: Eucalyptus is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. [...]
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