Tag Archives: S3

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

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Network performance within Amazon EC2 and to Amazon S3

What is the expected network performance between Amazon EC2 instances? What is the available bandwidth between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3? How about in and out of EC2?…These are common questions that we get very regularly. While we more or … Continue reading

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New Right_aws Ruby gem released

We just released a new version of our Right_aws ruby gem on RubyForge. This gem provides Ruby interfaces for Amazon EC2, S3, and SQS using Amazon’s REST and query interfaces to provide full programmatic control of the three services. An … Continue reading

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Deploying many Rails sites onto Amazon EC2

One of our customers is deploying many Rails sites onto EC2, more precisely, many instances of virtually the same site. Basically they have a Rails application and they tweak it for each individual site they set-up. EC2 is a wonderful … Continue reading

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Launch your Rails App in minutes on Amazon EC2 using RightScale

I previously showed-off our Rails-with-Mephisto server template so now it’s time for the Rails-all-in-One server template which makes it very easy to get your own Rails application running on Amazon EC2. We’ve made this template public, so any RightScale user … Continue reading

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