Category Archives: AWS
HA/DR and Fault Tolerance with AWS and RightScale
In a session at RightScale Compute last month, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Miles Ward talked about architecting in high availability and fault tolerance using AWS and RightScale. He noted that fault tolerance can result from faults in facilities, hardware, … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged AWS, High Availability, RightScale, User Conference
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The Resumator Turns to AWS and RightScale to Manage Its SaaS Platform
The cloud provides organizations with scalable resources on demand, but how does a company leverage the cloud to handle explosive growth? That was the issue facing The Resumator, which offers a cloud-based SaaS platform for collecting resumes and managing organizations’ … Continue reading
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AWS CloudHSM: Why You’ll Want It and What to Watch Out For
Security has been one of the top challenges in every survey on cloud computing in the last five years. Yet public cloud providers have continued to beef up their security offerings, and not everyone realizes how far providers have come … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Management, Security
Tagged AWS, Cloud Computing, Security
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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RightScale Supports New AWS Australia Region
Amazon just launched a new region today in Sydney, Australia, as part of its Global AWS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering. We’re pleased to announce that RightScale supports this new region (Asia Pacific – Sydney) on launch day!
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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Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud: The Application Tier
This week’s post is the second in a series on Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud, which summarizes some of the typical discussions I have with RightScale customers as they bring their new (or existing) applications into the cloud. Last … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, EC2
Tagged Cloud Computing Best Practices
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Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud
As an architect in the Professional Services group, I get the opportunity to talk to a lot of RightScale customers. And I enjoy it very much since I get to learn about all their cool new ideas and the technologies … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, EC2
Tagged Cloud Computing Best Practices
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PCI Compliance in the Public IaaS Cloud: How I Did It
Over the past few years, I have heard many folks assert that one can be a PCI compliant merchant using public IaaS cloud and I have heard just as many state that it’s not possible. In retrospect, I have found most of them – … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Security
Tagged Compliance, PCI, PCI-DSS
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Forecast Cloud Costs with PlanForCloud
Today we announced that RightScale acquired Scotland-based ShopForCloud, a free cloud cost forecasting website, and renamed it PlanForCloud. The website makes it easy to budget for your future cloud costs by giving you a set of tools to model your … Continue reading
