Tag Archives: EC2
RightAws release 1.7.0, including ActiveSDB alpha
We released a new version of our Ruby library gem for accessing AWS Services, including EC2, S3, SQS, and SDB: RightAws 1.7.0 is now available off rubyforge. This version includes enhancements of the EC2 interface to support Elastic IP addresses, … Continue reading
RightScale supports the new Amazon EC2 Elastic IP addresses and availability zones
The cloud is accelerating past terrestrial hosting! Today, Amazon unveiled some major upgrades to their service: Elastic IPs, Availability Zones, and Selectable Kernels. The first two are particularly important because they not only eliminate one of the remaining deficiencies of … Continue reading
Setting up a fault-tolerant site using Amazon’s Availability Zones
Amazon’s Availability Zones are a fabulous new feature that allows users to assign instances to locations that are very fault-tolerant from one another yet that have very high bandwidth between each other. I wish I could have done something like … Continue reading
Amazon’s communication is improving
One of the most often heard complaints about Amazon Web Services is the lack of communication about service status and issues. The community has been pretty vocal about this and they’ve certainly heard it and are committed to improving. So … Continue reading
RightScale has a new look!
As you can see, RightScale got a little makeover! Our old home page had been neglected for many months and we finally have a new look thanks to Dean’s hard work. We also moved the blog to wordpress, which will … Continue reading
RightAws Ruby gem now supports Amazon SDB
Today we released version 1.5.0 of our RightAws gem at http://rubyforge.org/projects/rightaws/ ! This release not only provides an interface to EC2, S3, and SQS but also to SDB! The SDB interface has all the nice features of the other interfaces, … Continue reading
What is cloud computing?
There are many definitions for cloud computing around, and depending on the time of day I’d probably recite a different one. But what’s really defining to me is the availability of quasi endless computers (instances in EC2 terminology). Pricing model, … Continue reading
Top reasons Amazon EC2 instances disappear
(Judging by the posting gap, the author of this blog almost disappeared too! Time to lift the head from the day-to-day scramble and write the next entry!) The fact that Amazon says up-front that computers fail seems to be the … Continue reading
New kernels coming to Amazon EC2
Up to now you could run any Linux distribution on Amazon EC2 but you could only run Amazon’s 2.6.16 kernel. Well strictly speaking there are two kernels: a 2.6.16.0 kernel for the 32-bit instances and a 2.6.16.33 kernel for the … Continue reading
MySQL performance on Amazon EC2
Spurred by Morgan Tocker I ran some sysbench MySQL performance benchmarks on EC2 instances. This is just the first round, more to follow… The set-up On a small instance, I reformatted /mnt with LVM2 and creates a 140GB xfs filesystem. … Continue reading
