Monthly Archives: March 2008

RightScale supports the new Amazon EC2 Elastic IP addresses and availability zones

Posted on March 26, 2008 by

The cloud is accelerating past terrestrial hosting! Today, Amazon unveiled some major upgrades to their service: Elastic IPs, Availability Zones, and Selectable Kernels. The first two are particularly important because they not only eliminate one of the remaining deficiencies of … Continue reading →

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Setting up a fault-tolerant site using Amazon’s Availability Zones

Posted on March 26, 2008 by

Amazon’s Availability Zones are a fabulous new feature that allows users to assign instances to locations that are very fault-tolerant from one another yet that have very high bandwidth between each other. I wish I could have done something like … Continue reading →

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DNS, Elastic IPs (EIP) and how things fit together when upgrading a server

Posted on March 26, 2008 by

Amazon’s new Elastic IP (EIP) addresses allow users to allocate an IP address and assign it to an instance of their choice. What’s really cool is that each IP address can be reassigned to a different instance when needed. For … Continue reading →

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Amazon’s communication is improving

Posted on March 24, 2008 by

One of the most often heard complaints about Amazon Web Services is the lack of communication about service status and issues. The community has been pretty vocal about this and they’ve certainly heard it and are committed to improving. So … Continue reading →

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RightScale has a new look!

Posted on March 20, 2008 by

As you can see, RightScale got a little makeover! Our old home page had been neglected for many months and we finally have a new look thanks to Dean’s hard work. We also moved the blog to wordpress, which will … Continue reading →

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