Author Archives: Thorsten
Bid for Your Instances!
We’re clearly witnessing a year-end release finale at AWS with another big release tonight: EC2 Spot instance pricing. Spot instance pricing is the third pricing model introduced by Amazon after the original per-hour price (now called “on-demand”), then the “reserved” … Continue reading
Amazon EC2 – A New Chapter Begins
Tonight Amazon made a milestone release introducing the ability to boot instances from an EBS volume and stop & start instances. In addition, just a few weeks after announcing their plans to expand AWS to the far east, today they’ve … Continue reading
RightScale ServerTemplate Library and Machine Tags
Yesterday’s release of the RightScale platform introduced two new features that I’m really excited about: the ServerTemplate Library and the use of Machine Tags on servers. (Ooops, I shouldn’t forget the new features for RackSpace, but I’ll talk about those … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Chef, Cloud Computing, EC2, Rackspace, RightLink
Tagged AWS, Chef, RightScale, ServerTemplate
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Amazon launches Relational Database Service and larger server sizes
Today is another big AWS launch day with two important new features available for EC2: a Relational Database Service (RDS) and larger servers. Plus a 15% price reduction on compute cycles: yay! Relational Database Service With the Relational Database Service … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2, MySQL
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Amazon Usage Estimates
Two weeks ago Guy Rosen posted a very interesting analysis of the EC2 instance IDs which reveals how many instances (virtual machines) have been launched on EC2 since its beginning in 2006. We’ve also been digging in our records and … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2
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RightScale Release: RackSpace, RightLink, Chef, Machine Tags, VPC, and more!
Yesterday’s release included a number of features that I’ve been itching to get into RightScale for a long time. This stuff is fresh off the press in alpha-release form so we’re hoping for your feedback so we can evolve it … Continue reading
Posted in EC2
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Internal external private public hybrid virtual cloud
I’d like an external private hybrid cloud, dry, with whole milk, please! Enterprises rise to the cloud, terminology takes off… As if we didn’t have enough cloud confusion already. But after some thinking it’s not all bad news, some of … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing
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Amazon launches virtual private clouds
This evening Amazon launched a new service called “VPC”, which stands for Virtual Private Cloud, read the details on the product page and the AWS blog, plus a nice backgrounder on Werner Vogel’s blog. The short story is that it … Continue reading
Posted in EC2
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More RightScale open source goodness
We’ve always been strong supporters of open source: we use it a lot and we’ve been contributing many things to the community as well. In particular, since early 2007 we’ve been publishing the recipes to our RightImages and we’ve also … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2, FlexiScale, Rackspace
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Enterprise-class Software becoming available in the Cloud through RightScale
More and more enterprise-class software vendors are making their software available in the cloud and doing it through RightScale. Over the past two weeks the IBM DB2 team made DB2 Express-C v9.7 available, SpringSource published Hyperic HQ, and CohesiveFT published … Continue reading
Posted in EC2
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