Author Archives: Thorsten
Thoughts on AWS OpsWorks Application Management
Since RightScale pioneered the category of cloud management six years ago, we’ve watched a variety of players large and small offer software and services targeted at some form of management of cloud applications and resources. We like to keep tabs … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged AWS, Chef, Cloud Management, Multi-Cloud, OpsWorks, Puppet, RightScale Cloud Management, ServerTemplate
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New EC2 instance types and coordinated failures in the cloud
Amazon announced a new series of instance types today that do not have any local storage. This got me thinking about some of the failure modes we’ve seen. The specifics are that AWS released the “m3″ series of instances with … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2
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RightScale Joins Google Compute Engine for Launch Day
Today we’ll be demoing RightScale managing a deployment on Google Compute Engine during the launch presentation at Google I/O at 1:30pm (PT). With the release of Google Compute Engine, the year 2012 is becoming a turning point in the evolution … Continue reading
Cloud APIs: It’s the Architecture that Matters
Lack of excitement is not something the cloud market can be accused of! Citrix just announced a bold roadmap for its CloudStack platform coming right on the heels of a Eucalyptus and Amazon announcement to extend API compatibility and just … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, CloudStack, EC2, Eucalyptus
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RightScale Server Orchestration and Amazon SWF launch
The launch of Amazon’s SWF (see also Werner’s blog) is a good opportunity to talk about some of the exciting new automation features that we have in the works and we will make available with the coming releases. We’ve been using … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2
Tagged Auto-scale, AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, EC2, RightScale
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Commercial Support for OpenStack on the Horizon
A change that was very palpable at the recent OpenStack conference is that a number of major industry players are readying commercial offerings around implementing OpenStack clouds. Today Citrix officially threw its hat into the ring announcing “Project Olympus” that … Continue reading
AWS outage follow-up: if you wanted details, you got details!
A week after the April 21st 2011 outage AWS posted a detailed post mortem explanation of what happened. It’ll be interesting to see how everyone digests the very detailed account. Since AWS did not provide an executive summary I’ll try … Continue reading
Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned
Last Thursday’s Amazon EC2 outage was the worst in cloud computing’s history. It made the front page of many news pages, including the New York Times, probably because many people were shocked by how many web sites and services rely … Continue reading
Zend publishes PHP PaaS on RightScale
It looks like 2011 is shaping up as the year of PaaS and the notion of what a PaaS is is starting to stretch out a bit. I used to think of PaaS as being what Heroku or Google App … Continue reading
Cloud Foundry Architecture and Auto-Scaling
Yesterday’s blog post mostly covered the benefits of VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS and how it fits with RightScale. Today I want to dive a little into the Cloud Foundry architecture and highlight how IaaS and PaaS really are complementary. I’m … Continue reading
