Monday, April 14th, 2008
Amazon just officially announced that they are indeed developing persistent storage for EC2.
This new feature provides reliable, persistent storage volumes, for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These volumes exist independently from any Amazon EC2 instances, and will behave like raw, unformatted hard drives or block devices, which may then be formatted and configured based on [...]
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Amazon EC2 just received two very important updates: Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones.
Elastic IP Addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing, and now make it easy to host web sites, web services and other online applications in Amazon EC2. Elastic IP addresses are associated with your AWS account, not with your [...]
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Today’s S3 outage taught me quite a bit. I don’t currently have any sites or services running on AWS, but I will have multiple ones up shortly. I am always big on redundancy, but I admit that when I comes to things like EC2 and S3 - I assumed that Amazon had already [...]
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Amazon has announced their newest webservice, SimpleDB. This service could fill in the gap with EC2 and S3 to offer a completely redundant and scalable solution for robust Internet applications. Amazon has only released a few details, but the public beta will be opening within the next few weeks.
Traditionally, this type of functionality [...]
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