Tag Archives: EC2

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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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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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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RightScale featured on Mashable [podcast]

Posted on April 30, 2008 by

Hear our CEO, Michael Crandell in a featured interview with Mark Hopkins on his show, “Mashable Conversations.” Michael gives a great overview of cloud computing and explains the growing interest among start-ups, mid-size, and even enterprise level businesses. The interview … Continue reading →

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Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes

Posted on April 13, 2008 by

The Amazon folks have gone public today with the next EC2 feature: persistent storage. The official information is found in Jeff Barr’s blog entry and in Matt’s forum post. Calling the persistent storage a “feature” is actually quite an understatement, … Continue reading →

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How EC2 changes the game in batch grid computing

Posted on April 5, 2008 by

We’ve been receiving a fair number of inquiries about our RightGrid batch processing framework recently. RightGrid was designed to simplify the task of processing large numbers of jobs enqueued in Amazon SQS with the data to be processed residing in … Continue reading →

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RightScale supports Amazon’s new Simple Queue Service interface

Posted on April 5, 2008 by

For a few weeks now we’ve been supporting the new programming interface for Amazon’s Simple Queue Service. The new interface comes with better pricing, especially for high volume users that enqueue thousands of messages. See Amazon’s site for details on … Continue reading →

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