Monthly Archives: October 2007

Network performance within Amazon EC2 and to Amazon S3

Posted on October 28, 2007 by

What is the expected network performance between Amazon EC2 instances? What is the available bandwidth between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3? How about in and out of EC2?…These are common questions that we get very regularly. While we more or … Continue reading →

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64-bit CentOS5 Amazon EC2 image release

Posted on October 23, 2007 by

A 64-bit version of our CentOS5 image is now available for general consumption! The image is called `RightImage CentOS5 x86_64 V1_12` with AMI ID ami-31c72258 and location `rightscale_images/CentOS5_X86_64_V1_12`. See the changelog for info on past images. This is our first … Continue reading →

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New Right_aws Ruby gem released

Posted on October 18, 2007 by

We just released a new version of our Right_aws ruby gem on RubyForge. This gem provides Ruby interfaces for Amazon EC2, S3, and SQS using Amazon’s REST and query interfaces to provide full programmatic control of the three services. An … Continue reading →

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RightScale supports Amazon’s new machine types

Posted on October 17, 2007 by

Amazon just introduced new types of servers, larger ones! Until now it was a “one size fits all” model where you got 1/2 an Opteron CPU, 1.75GB of memory, and 160GB disk. Now you can get a server with two … Continue reading →

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More Rails on Amazon EC2 with RightScale

Posted on October 8, 2007 by

We’ve had a number of users getting going with our Rails-all-in-one server template and from the questions we’ve received it’s clearly time to cover some more advanced topics. Database backups The template does include automatic database backups but you need … Continue reading →

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Deploying many Rails sites onto Amazon EC2

Posted on October 1, 2007 by

One of our customers is deploying many Rails sites onto EC2, more precisely, many instances of virtually the same site. Basically they have a Rails application and they tweak it for each individual site they set-up. EC2 is a wonderful … Continue reading →

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New CentOS5 RightImage V1_10 published

Posted on October 1, 2007 by

A new RightScale CentOS5 base image (RightImage) is available: RightImage CentOS V1_10 ami-08f41161, please see the changelog for the details of what has changed. We also try to keep the Public AMI listing on Amazon’s site up-to-date. A little background … Continue reading →

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