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Elastician: Creating an EBS-backed AMI from an S3-backed AMI
Creating new instances based on snapshots of EBS-backed EC2 instances.
amazon  aws  cloud  ec2  ebs 
october 2011 by mcroydon
Amazon.com: Aviation & Pilot Electronics
Didn't know Amazon had rolled all this up in to a single spot.
aviation  amazon 
september 2011 by mcroydon
Online Backup for Mac | Arq | Haystack Software
Looks like a pretty fantastic backup-to-S3 app for OSX.
amazon  backup  mac  s3  osx 
may 2011 by mcroydon
AWS Architecture Center
Designing for failure and redundancy.
amazon  architecture  aws  cloud 
april 2011 by mcroydon
The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet – stu.mp
Solid thoughts on how to do it right in the cloud.
cloud  engineering  system  amazon  aws  ec2  ebs 
april 2011 by mcroydon
When the Lights Go Out | Eucalyptus
Complex systems are complex. And Fragile.
amazon  aws  outage 
april 2011 by mcroydon
How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse « SmugMug's Don MacAskill
How SmugMug survived the AWS outage. Part careful planning part luck, but ultimately due to not using EBS and only suffering a minor outage due to splash damage.
amazon  aws  ebs  ec2 
april 2011 by mcroydon
Skynet, EC2, and Zencoder « Zencoder Blog
Zencoder's reaction to the EC2 outage and how they handled it.
amazon  aws  ec2  ebs 
april 2011 by mcroydon
Post-Mortem of a Rough Day
MongoHQ's take on the EBS outage.
aws  amazon  ebs  outage  architecture 
april 2011 by mcroydon
blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: Why reddit was down for 6 of the last 24 hours.
The takeaway, at least for me, is to make sure you have EBS volumes spread across availability zones and be prepared to lose one or more of them for an extended amount of time.
amazon  cassandra  reddit 
march 2011 by mcroydon
help/en/howto/cloudfront – Cyberduck
How to set up cloudfront using your own origin server without having to use the API.
ec2  amazon  aws  cloudfront  cdn 
march 2011 by mcroydon
Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS CloudFormation - Create Your AWS Stack From a Recipe
I love that the focus of this tool is to make it easier for you to get your job done and consume the underlying AWS services.
aws  amazon  web-service  cloud 
february 2011 by mcroydon
godber/crunch.io-dashboard - GitHub
"The Crunch.io Dashboard allows users to launch scientific computing clusters in EC2 with ease."
scientific  computing  ec2  amazon  management  dashboard 
january 2011 by mcroydon
STARDEV: Cluster - Welcome to StarCluster!
A toolkit for launching EC2 instances. Aimed at scientific computing.
amazon  cluster  ec2  python 
january 2011 by mcroydon
Kindle 3: e-book readers come of age
The previous Kindles were good, but it all came together on the K3.
amazon  e-books  books  ereader  ebooks  kindle  reading  review  reviews  technology  arstechnica  ereaders 
november 2010 by mcroydon
Daring Fireball Linked List: Marco Arment on the Kindle 3
I've totally been describing the Kindle3 as "the iPod Nano for books" for awhile now. Gruber agrees.
kindle  amazon  ebook  ipod 
october 2010 by mcroydon
My Thoughts on Kindle 3 and Why My iPad's About to Get Very Dusty | Bridging the Nerd Gap
Amen. The K3 is the iPod nano for ebooks and makes long-form reading on the web pretty darn pleasant too.
kindle  k3  amazon  ipad  apple  ipod 
september 2010 by mcroydon
Amazon CloudFront Adds Invalidation Feature
Amazon solves one of the two truly hard concepts in Computer Science and it's free for the first 1,000 operations!
amazon  aws  cloudfront 
september 2010 by mcroydon
Amazon.com: Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G, 9.7" Display, Graphite, 3G Works…
Looks nice but it still has twitchy page refreshes. Man, if they fixed that I'd be a happy man.
ebook  eink  amazon 
july 2010 by mcroydon
High Performance Computing
Amazon drops 10Gbps and monster instances.
amazon  ec2  hpc 
july 2010 by mcroydon
AWS Import/Export
A station wagon full of backup tapes now has an API.
amazon  aws  bigdata  beta  backup  cloud  cloud_computing  service  s3  large  import  export  ec2  data  cloudcomputing  storage  tools  carrier  sneakernet  transfer 
june 2010 by mcroydon
Home - Ensuring Inbox Delivery - CritSend
"CritSend ensures your email reaches its appropriate inbox and will not end up in a spam box. We deliver over 2 million automated emails per day: invoices, password notifications, transactional, newsletters, email marketing and more." $1 per 1,000 emails.
amazon  aws  ec2  open  email  mail  service  spam  it  smtp  beta  via:pskomoroch 
december 2009 by mcroydon
Elastician: Private and Streaming Distributions in CloudFront
Covers some of the new features released by Amazon today and available in boto trunk.
amazon  aws  s3  cloudfront  streaming  video  python 
december 2009 by mcroydon
Amazon CloudFront
More on Cloudfront's new RTMP support. Amazon runs Flash Media Server so you don't have to.
amazon  s3  cloudfront  cdn  streaming 
december 2009 by mcroydon
Instances
Like Adwords for computer time. This would be great for backfill or maintenance tasks that don't need to be done right away.
amazon  ec2  auction 
december 2009 by mcroydon
Analyzing Human Genomes with Hadoop » Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog
A fantastic writeup of absurdly fast sequencing software that can analyze a human genome in about 3 hours for less than $100 of AWS resources. Pretty darned impressive.
data  opensource  computer  amazon  algorithms  aws  hadoop  ec2  mapreduce  dna  bioinformatics  cloudera  trend  genetics  genome  foss  genomics 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service
Mobile payments need to be easier -- I'm not sure if this hits the mark yet but it's close.
mobile  toread  news  api  amazon  shopping  payment  ecommerce  mobilepayment  micropayment  mcommerce  payments 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
A pretty fantastic DIY solution to massive storage. I kinda wonder what the failure rate is on a configuration such as this.
design  linux  hardware  database  opensource  technology  amazon  server  diy  computer  storage  sysadmin  cool  s3  aws  debian  open  cloud  infrastructure  custom  cheap  backblaze  hard  drive  harddrives 
september 2009 by mcroydon
Thread: Does Amazon EC2 meet PCI Compliance guidelines?
While Amazon's cloud is reasonably secure, it'll never reach PCI Level 1 compliance. So don't save or store credit card information on EC2 or S3.
amazon  security  s3  ecommerce  ec2  cloud  processing  payment  PCI 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Getting Good IO from Amazon's EBS
How to get good performance out of this mysterious creature.
amazon  storage  performance  startup  aws  testing  ec2  optimization  benchmark  ebs  raid  disk  io 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Bye-bye Kindle, E-reader Screens Coming for Netbooks - PC World
I dare say they've got a fantastic idea there. The only challenge will be getting the price down, as low cost is a defining characteristic of the netbook market.
eink  netbook  amazon  kindle 
may 2009 by mcroydon
Baconfile
Pretty awesome, though I don't think I'll use it until it supports ACL'd buckets instead of handing over my AWS credentials.
web  tools  amazon  s3  aws  sharing  file 
march 2009 by mcroydon
Amazon.com
Sign-up form for providing content (blogs, newspapers, magazines, etc) to Amazon's Kindle.
blog  amazon  publishing  application  kindle  magazine  newspaper 
march 2009 by mcroydon
marajo - Google Code
Interesting. AppEngine compatible framework that runs on EC2.
python  google  amazon  opensource  aws  framework  ec2  infrastructure  project  webservices  simpledb  appengine  gae  license:gpl  license:gplv3 
february 2009 by mcroydon
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