Monthly Archives: November 2007

New kernels coming to Amazon EC2

Posted on November 27, 2007 by

Up to now you could run any Linux distribution on Amazon EC2 but you could only run Amazon’s 2.6.16 kernel. Well strictly speaking there are two kernels: a 2.6.16.0 kernel for the 32-bit instances and a 2.6.16.33 kernel for the … Continue reading →

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MySQL performance on Amazon EC2

Posted on November 13, 2007 by

Spurred by Morgan Tocker I ran some sysbench MySQL performance benchmarks on EC2 instances. This is just the first round, more to follow… The set-up On a small instance, I reformatted /mnt with LVM2 and creates a 140GB xfs filesystem. … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 7.04 Amazon EC2 image release

Posted on November 7, 2007 by

We’ve been working on an Ubuntu RightImage for a while now and it just took longer than expected to iron out all the little wrinkles. But now it’s available as `RightImage Ubuntu7.04V1_14_2` with AMI ID ami-f3cc299a and location `rightscale_images/Ubuntu7.04_V1_14_2`. This … Continue reading →

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