Category Archives: EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

RightScale Release: MultiCloud ServerTemplates and RightImages…

This is Part Two of our release series.  A couple weeks ago, we announced a lot of goodies and while we’re going to talk about some new stuff today, be sure to come back next week for more about our … Continue reading

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Performing Security Testing in the Cloud

[This is Phil Cox's first blog post since he joined us as Director of Security and Compliance. We hope to have more from him to post in the near future! -Thorsten] Security testing is one aspect of a security program … Continue reading

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RightScale Release: Rackspace Linux ServerTemplate Support, Windows 2008R2, PostgreSQL 9

When a systems or software engineer is learning a new language, a plethora of examples to learn from is invaluable. The cloud currently feels like a new software language to many – new constructs, better tools, rewritten rules. RightScale has … Continue reading

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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

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See you at the RightScale User Conference in NYC on June 8th

As the cloud computing landscape continues to rapidly evolve, RightScale is committed to helping you take advantage of the latest developments. These developments come from RightScale directly, our technology partners and from you – our customers.  Because cloud computing is … Continue reading

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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

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RightScale-Ready Ubuntu 11.04 Amazon AMIs

Ubunutu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is released, and there’s something in it for RightScale users! We’ve been working with our partners at Canonical to make it possible to use Ubuntu AMIs out of the box with RightScale. This means you can … Continue reading

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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

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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

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ServerTemplates: The Key to RightScale Cloud Management

People often ask us what the biggest innovation is that RightScale offers beyond other forms of server management. The real answer is the integrated approach that puts together all the parts needed to architect multi-server deployments, launch them, monitor and … Continue reading

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