Tag 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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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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How to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Resource Usage
Last year RightScale announced the acquisition of PlanForCloud, a cloud cost forecasting tool that enables you to model your cloud infrastructure, run it through a simulation, and get a three-year cost report showing what your deployment will cost. We know … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Costs, Cloud Management, PlanForCloud
Tagged AWS, Google Compute Engine, Rackspace, Softlayer, Windows Azure
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AWS Outage Lessons Learned: If Netflix Can Suffer, So Can You
On Christmas Eve and continuing into Christmas Day, AWS had a “Service Event” centered on the ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) service in the US-East region. Although only a small percentage of ELBs were functionally disabled and unable to route traffic … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged AWS, Cloud Computing Best Practices, High Availability, Outage
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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!
Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud: The Caching Tier
Last week I discussed the application tier and the implementation considerations that come into play with regard to promoting the availability and resiliency of that tier of your architecture. Here, in the third article in my series on Architecting Scalable … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged Auto-scale, AWS, Caching, Cloud Computing Best Practices, EC2, High Availability, Performance
Identifying Workloads for the Cloud
Identifying workloads to move to the cloud can be tricky. You have dozens or hundreds of apps running in your organization, and now that you’ve seen the operational efficiencies and agility available to you in the cloud, you’re tempted to … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged Auto-scale, AWS, Batch Processing, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Hybrid Cloud, private cloud, S3, Scalable Web Apps
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RightScale Conference: Talk to the Experts About Cloud
Cloud is here and cloud is now. RightScale has led the way in cloud management, with more than 4 million servers launched in the cloud to date. We know that cloud is a strategy, not just a tactical solution. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Management, RightScale Conference
Tagged AWS, Cloud Computing, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Hybrid Cloud, MultiCloud, Openstack, private cloud, Rackspace, RightScale Conference, Softlayer
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
