Category Archives: EC2
500friends Inspires Customer Loyalty
In this guest post contributed by the CTO of 500friends, Bob Tekiela talks about the challenges of launching a business on a SaaS platform and how RightScale is an integral part of his company’s ongoing success. Customer loyalty is a … Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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Tagged Cloud Computing Best Practices
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How Much Does Your Cloud Cost?
One of the earliest features we added to RightScale was cloud cost tracking and monthly projections. Instance usage reporting quickly became one of the most appreciated features by our customers (and their finance departments). Over time we’ve added more cost-tracking … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Costs, Cloud Management, EC2, PlanForCloud, Releases
Tagged cloud cost forecasting
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
Seven Things to Consider Before Building a Private Cloud
Not so long ago, if you were like many CIOs or ops managers, you were consumed with issues related to providing power, space, and cooling for corporate datacenters. As the capabilities of server hardware continued to increase (Moore’s Law stands … Continue reading
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Four Steps to Achieving High Availability in the Cloud
Constructing a high-availability application in the cloud can seem like a daunting process. The key is to assume that every component of a system will fail at some point and to prepare for that eventuality. Then you can build for … 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
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