Easily run an autoscaling, load-balanced, monitored failover-safe cloud computing cluster on Amazon's EC2 cluster on open-source software!
PoolParty is based on established open source technologies that have been widely used in production. It takes your EC2 server pool, and invites S3Fuse, monit, and members of the High Availability Linux Project . Now you don’t just have a…
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SmugMug gets a lot of coverage for our S3 storage (more than half a petabyte), but we use EC2 heavily as well. Here's an overview of our approach and architecture and how we save money by using EC2 to scale both up and down.
Our goal is to keep enough slack around to handle surges of unpredictable batch operations, but not enough so it drains our bank account. We’ve settled on an average of roughly 25% of excess compute capacity available when averaged…
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Starting with the A’s, Amazon and Apple, our 2008 look at the technology companies still able to keep up with emerging-market competition
Starting with the A's, Amazon and Apple, our 2008 look at the technology companies still able to keep up with emerging-market competition
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Sun Microsystems is getting ready to talk about its cloud computing efforts, including some kind of a deal with Amazon for its Amazon Web Services, according to CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who delivered a short keynote at Startup Camp in San Francisco.
When I asked him about that decision and how it weighed on him, Schwartz turned the question back on me. My response, I suppose, as a capitalist, are that tough decisions come as part of doing business. That kind of attitude, Jonathan said, leads…
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Did you know Amazon can email you suggestions from Mom's wishlist two weeks before her birthday? Automatically ship you a new case of toilet paper every 2 months? Refund the difference on the price of an item you purchased that went on sale? Several advanced Amazon features, third party apps and add-ons can help you get the best deals
You already love the one-stop convenience of shopping online at Amazon.com, but chances are you're not getting everything you can out of this feature-packed shopping engine. Did you know Amazon can email you suggestions from Mom's…
Amazon loves to talk about its Web Services because it positions the company as a bold innovator bringing cloud computing to the unwashed masses and other companies still stuck in the land of legacy data centers. But it is coy when it comes to details about the actual business behind Amazon Web Services, which includes its S3 storage service…
This is not a big surprise to me. Last year sometime, at some random geeky event, I was explaining why I thought AWS was so cool, and one of the people I was explaining it to worked for a local insurance company, and he got very excited….
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Google isnt just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more. Tonight at 9pm PT theyre launching Google App Engine
does the google stuff use virtualization? i would like to see a head to head performance comparison, since one of the big AWS complaints is that the virtualization knocks about 30% off performance right out of the gate…and is this…
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Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch.
One interesting ingredient in Amazon’s success has been their commitment that they are not interested in building upstream products and that they are primarily concerned with providing the “undifferentiated heavy…
Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US. Now, Apple has ascended to the top of the charts, surpassing Wal-Mart for the first time ever, according to the NPD MusicWatch Survey.
The news was announced in an e-mail sent this afternoon to some Apple employees, a copy of which was seen by Ars Technica. It includes a screenshot of an Excel file showing the top ten music retailers in the US for January 2008, and Apple is…
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The tech industry offers some interesting, alternative methods to torture suspects.
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The Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS) allows merchants to tap in to Amazons network of fulfillment centers and our expertise in logistics. Merchants can store their own products to our fulfillment centers and then, using a simple web service interface, fulfill orders for the products
The Inbound service gives merchants the ability to create and send shipments to an Amazon fulfillment center (FC). The getInboundShipmentPreview function is used to locate one or more Amazon FCs to receive a particular product. The service…
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Last.fm is generally acknowledged to be one of the best web apps of this era - its music recommendation system literally creates a personalized radio station for you. Well, Last.fm also has an API that is used by many external services to add value and enjoyment for end users.
This service generates a tag cloud of artists similar to the one you’ve input, based on Audioscrobbler data. I generally don’t find such tag clouds to be overly useful, because music is very subjective - e.g. Bryan Adams isn’t very…
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