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July 14 2009
Rackspace has launched a public beta of their Cloud Servers API. The Cloud Servers product allows you to rent computing resources and is a competitor to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Rackspace has a comparison page that describes, from their perspective, the advantages of their offering over EC2. Some key differences… read moreJuly 07 2009
Google’s Gmail and Google Apps are no longer BETA products. I guess that means that not only has the designation “beta” been stripped of any real meaning on the modern web, but even the decision to leave beta status can be taken on a whim. Perhaps there is a tangible… read moreAWS Management Console: Now with CloudFront
June 24 2009
Amazon’s AWS Management Console now supports the company’s CloudFront service, a CDN-like extension for the Simple Storage Service (S3). You can read about this new feature on the AWS Blog and watch an introductory video here. read moreOpenID Delegation: Why and How
June 16 2009
The great promise of the OpenID specification is that it can simplify identity management on the ‘net. At its best, OpenID provides three great features: Unified Identity A single account (identity) with which you can log in to many sites, removing the need to create and remember a separate username/login for every… read moreXMLBuilder Version 0.3: XPath, Parsing and Maven Goodies
June 11 2009
I have updated my small java-xmlbuilder project with some nice new features. First, here’s a reminder of what this project does: XML Builder is a utility that creates simple XML documents using relatively sparse Java code. It is intended to allow for quick and painless creation of XML documents where you might… read moreJune 08 2009
An interesting post with some drawbacks of cloud computing and EC2, from those in the trenches: Real-world cloud computing. There are some real gems here, such as: [They all] used Amazon services, and most if not all of them seemed to use RightScale to manage them. Cost: cloud is more expensive than… read moreIPython with Python version 2.6 on OS X Leopard
June 06 2009
I recently installed the excellent IPython program, a beefed-up Python console that provides a raft of extra features over the default interpreter and makes it even more of a pleasure to work with this language. When you install IPython on Mac OS X Leopard using the standard method, it only installs… read moreBig data + Little pipe? Try S3 Ingestion
May 27 2009
A major barrier to moving your data to an online storage location like Amazon’s S3 can be the time it takes to push large numbers of bytes through your upstream Internet connection. While your connection may be fast enough to keep your data fresh and in-sync from day to day,… read moreNew EC2 Services: Monitor, Scale and Load Balance Your Instances
May 20 2009
Amazon recently released three major new features for their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service — New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch. These beta services are immediately available to anyone with an EC2 account and server instances located in the US (sorry EU folks,… read moreMay 10 2009
JetS3t (jet-set) version 0.7.1 is now available. This is the latest version of my open source Java S3 library and application suite. Visit the JetS3t web site to download the new version, run the updated online applications, or read the latest documentation: http://jets3t.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html This version includes bug fixes and support for the… read moreMay 04 2009
Do you use Amazon Web Services for research purposes at a university, or as part of a university course? If so, you should look into Amazon’s new AWS in Education initiative which provides AWS service credits to members of the academic community. You can apply for credit programs designed for… read moreHow to use JetS3t with Eucalyptus
April 30 2009
Eucalyptus is a relatively new but rapidly developing open-source system for running your own cloud computing clusters. There have been some exciting announcements recently around this project: it has been added to Ubuntu 9.04 as the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud technology preview, integrated into RightScale’s cloud management service, and has received… read moreOther AWS News: HIPAA Compliance, SimpleDB Batch Put
April 13 2009
Other AWS news that I haven’t yet mentioned… HIPAA Compliance Amazon has announced a white paper: Creating HIPAA-Compliant Medical Data Applications with Amazon Web Services. My JetS3t Java library is mentioned in the blog post among the tools that allow you to easily encrypt data that you store in S3. Check out… read moreSQS Update: Access permissions, visibility timeouts, and EU availability
April 13 2009
Amazon’s SQS messaging service has been updated with some interesting new features, as announced in the AWS blog post Powerful New Amazon SQS Features. Access Permissions The original release of SQS allowed users to set access permissions for their message queues so that third-parties could participate in their messaging system. This feature… read moreArticle on Real-world Experiences with EC2
April 13 2009
Grig Gheorghiu of the Agile Testing blog has a very good post about his experiences deploying large-scale applications on Amazon’s EC2 service: Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2. Lots of great tips here. read moreBuy Direct and Save
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