Category Archives: EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

More servers, bigger servers, longer servers, and 10x of that!

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

As a rapid growing start-up we obviously keep a close eye on where and how the growth is occurring and year after year it keeps amazing us. We just published a press release that showcases some of the trends we’re … Continue reading →

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VMops rebrands to Cloud.com and open sources

Posted on May 4, 2010 by

Pretty bold move by VMops! They evidently bought the cloud.com domain and are rebranding to Cloud.com on the occasion of their new release, now called CloudStack 2.0, which they’re also open-sourcing at open.cloud.com. With this they’re joining the open source … Continue reading →

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Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Posted on April 28, 2010 by

Over the past weeks we’ve been releasing a number of new features in response to numerous requests from our user base to broaden the reach of the RightScale platform.  Just today we launched support for Amazon’s new Singapore region, see … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about the Amazon Simple Notification Service

Posted on April 12, 2010 by

Amazon just released a new service, the Simple Notification Service (SNS), which is a distributed message delivery service roughly similar to AMQP or JMS message services. It uses a publish-subscribe paradigm and supports push delivery of notifications using HTTP and … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking Load Balancers in the Cloud

Posted on April 1, 2010 by

Load balancing is one of the technologies that virtually all our customers are using within EC2, and there is an increasing set of options available for doing it. We’ve been giving advice to our customers for years on what we’ve … Continue reading →

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RightScale ServerTemplates Explained

Posted on March 22, 2010 by

One of the distinguishing features of RightScale is that from day one we’ve focused on automating the configuration management of servers. The reason is simple: you can’t get the benefits of the cloud if you have to spend a lot … Continue reading →

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Cloud API requirements

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

Adrian wrote an interesting post on cloud APIs and whether a standard cloud API makes sense or not. I’m still of the opinion that there is too much diversity out there and that the time is not ripe yet. There … Continue reading →

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Amazon Consolidated Billing and Reserved Instances

Posted on February 10, 2010 by

Amazon added consolidated billing a couple of days ago. It allows you to consolidate multiple accounts onto a single bill so your credit card only gets one hefty charge instead of many smaller ones from all the accounts you might … Continue reading →

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Bid for Your Instances!

Posted on December 13, 2009 by

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 →

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Amazon EC2 – A New Chapter Begins

Posted on December 3, 2009 by

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 →

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