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Amazon's new Cloud Drive rains on everyone's parade | Technology | The Observer
's new Cloud Drive rains on everyone's parade - excellent analysis (but isn't the word "snook"?)
Amazon  from twitter_favs
april 2011 by sogrady
Amazon MP3 Downloader on 64-bit Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) - Brendan Ribera
finally got the Amazon MP3 downloader to work on 64 bit Ubuntu using these instructions
amazon  mp3  64bit  ubuntu  lucidlynx 
june 2010 by sogrady
Newsweek.com Explores Amazon Cloud Computing
"Newsweek, under a cloud, is going to the cloud. The site is outsourcing its Web site hosting duties to Amazon, joining a small but growing number of companies experimenting with cloud computing.

Until now, Newsweek.com had been hosted by its parent company, The Washington Post Co. The media company has been trying to cut losses at its magazine division, which recorded $29.3 million in operating losses in 2009. By joining the cloud, Newsweek expects to save close to $500,000 annually."
newsweek  amazon  cloud  economics  adoption 
april 2010 by sogrady
Google is slashing prices for online storage | Gravitational Pull
"To be sure, Google’s new service may turn out to have some limits or catches that haven’t yet been disclosed. And taking full advantage of the space may require other software developers to jump in and write some middleware apps (as happened with Amazon’s S3).
amazon  s3  dropbox  mobileme  google  online  storage 
january 2010 by sogrady
blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: Why did we take reddit down for 71 minutes?
"As most of you know, we moved reddit to EC2 back in May of 2009. Our experience there has been excellent so far. Since we moved to EC2, the number of unique users has gone up 50%, and pageviews are up more than 100%. To support this growth, we have added 30% more ram and 50% more CPU, yet because of Amazon's constant price reductions, we are actually paying less per month now than when we started."
amazon  cloud  memcached  aws  ebs  reddit  pricing 
january 2010 by sogrady
Windows & Red Hat pricing on Amazon EC2 vs. on-premise « rand($thoughts);
"Holding the product version and support level constant across an on-premise license and Amazon EC2 instance, the price premium of Windows vs. RHEL, if X% for on-premise, will be less than X% on the Amazon cloud.  Said differently, the license cost differential between proprietary and open source products narrows in the cloud."
pricing  cloud  redhat  amazon  support  windows  microsoft  rhel 
january 2010 by sogrady
Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually | Cloudscaling
the calculation certainly qualifies as an estimation, but still, the numbers are interesting
amazon  economics  revenue  aws  ec2 
january 2010 by sogrady
Amazon S3 plugin for WordPress : tan tan noodles – msg free since 2005
this is pretty interesting, if you serve static assets from your wordpress instance
amazon  s3  plugins  wordpress  scalability 
december 2009 by sogrady
EC2StartersGuide - Community Ubuntu Documentation
just what it says: very nice piece of documentation
amazon  api  s3  ec2  aws  documentation  cloud  install  howto  ami 
november 2009 by sogrady
82 Billion Objects in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed
"When looking at the graph keep in mind that the first 4 markers are a year apart, but the last one only 6 months."
amazon  cloud  s3  webservices  stats 
november 2009 by sogrady
blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: Moving to the cloud
"Last week we also decommissioned the last of our physical servers. We are now operating our entire website "in the cloud" as the kids would say. Specifically, we are using Amazon Web Services. If all went well, you didn't notice a thing."
reedit  amazon  ec2  aws  s3  cloudcomputing  cloud 
november 2009 by sogrady
Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts - Amazon RDS, MySQL, Hmm?
"Kudos to Amazon. Having them run a database service won't provide the "high end" sort of usage that keeps the folks who tune databases in business, but there certainly are a lot of users for whom this type of service will work just fine.
mysql  rds  amazon  hosting  cloud  memcached 
november 2009 by sogrady
Cisco Won't Take on Amazon in Cloud - PC World
which begs the question: is that the right decision?
cisco  amazon  cloud  systems  businessmodels 
august 2009 by sogrady
AWS Toolkit for Eclipse
not a match for the Azure/Visual Studio blend yet, but interesting
aws  eclipse  amazon  development  tools 
june 2009 by sogrady
CohesiveFT - Cloud API Comparison
great resource from the CohesiveFT folks on the available APIs
cohesiveft  cloud  apis  sun  amazon  citrix  elastichost  nimbus  eucalyptus  flexiscale  gogrid  occi  via:tim 
may 2009 by sogrady
ongoing · The Sun Cloud
a nutty schedule has prevented me from talking direct w/ Tim about this, sadly, but it looks interesting. need to write it up after getting the walkthrough.
timbray  sun  cloud  rest  java  python  ruby  storage  amazon  creativecommons 
march 2009 by sogrady
Q&A: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels -- Chief of the Year -- InformationWeek
note in particular the very dispassionate and pragmatic response to the question of open source usage within Amazon
amazon  cto  wernervogels  interview  opensource  ec2 
january 2009 by sogrady
Roku Netflix box to stream Amazon content
this is awesome. i really need to get myself a Roku one of these days. anyone know how they are on 768 DSL?
amazon  tv  streaming  netflix  roku 
january 2009 by sogrady
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Openness is not enough
"We can (and will) have debates about the relative openness of Azure and AWS and Force.com and all the other "cloud platforms" that are available or will be available. And those will be important debates. But in this early stage of the cloud's development, openness means little to the buyer (or user). The buyers, particularly those in big companies, are nervous about the cloud even as they are becoming increasingly eager to reap the benefits the cloud can provide. What they care about right now is security, reliability, features, compatibility with their existing systems and applications, ease of adoption, stability of the vendor, and other practical concerns. In the long run, they may come to regret their lack of stress on openness, but in the here-and-now it's just not a major consideration. They want stuff that works and won't blow up in their faces." - agreed
microsoft  google  amazon  cloud  openness  lockin  proprietary  open 
november 2008 by sogrady
Amazon's new EC2 SLA - O'Reilly Radar
"If the entire EC2 service is down a cumulative four hours and twenty minutes, customers must furnish proof of the outage to Amazon to be eligible for the 10% credit. This seems like an onerous process for very little compensation, and isn't in-line with Amazon's famous "Relentless Customer Obsession"." - getting to this late, but worth a read
sla  ec2  cloud  amazon 
november 2008 by sogrady
Aleksey Aristov : Weblog
"Cloud Studio with OSGi support is finally out. Now it is possible to upload your bundles into S3 based bundle repository and create an instance profile (similiar to "Run Configuration" in Eclipse). After profile is created, an EC2 instance that hosts OSGi framework with required bundles can be launched." - late with this, but it's interesting nonetheless.
s3  ec2  eclipse  osgi  amazon  cloud  java 
october 2008 by sogrady
Performance increase with Amazon's EBS (persistent storage) | AltJ.org
"In summary, it's safe to say you'll see a significant disk performance increase if you switch over to using EBS with your EC2 instances. In addition to the performance increase, it's a no-brainer that you want persistent storage for your databases. One other huge benefit is snapshots. You can quickly and easily snapshot your database for backup purposes or for testing/reporting you may want to run against your most recent production data."
ec2  ebs  amazon  performance  customer  benchmark  familink  via:jeff 
september 2008 by sogrady
AT&T to Be Provider Of 'Cloud Computing' - WSJ.com
interesting. one assume, however, that they'll be competing with the likes of IBM rather than, primarily, the Amazons or GAEs of the world.
cloud  computing  amazon  at&t  google  appengine  via:brenda 
august 2008 by sogrady
Bad Penny » Amazon downtime
if these assertions regarding Amazon's operations capabilities are accurate, it begs the question: why is Amazon's uptime fairly stellar, generally speaking? shouldn't there be more evidence?
amazon  it  systemsmanagement  uptime  operations 
june 2008 by sogrady
SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug)
"I really don’t want to operate datacenters anymore despite the fact that we’re pretty good at it. It’s a necessary evil because we’re an Internet company, but our mission is to be the best photo sharing site." - Skynet = their GAE abstraction lay
donmacaskill  ec2  amazon  scalability  smugmug  s3  aws  architecture  cloud  skynet 
june 2008 by sogrady
MOSSO :: The Hosting Cloud - Home
interesting that Rackspace created a new brand for this
mosso  hosting  server  cloud  rackspace  amazon 
may 2008 by sogrady
Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2 - Waxy.org
"AppDrop is a container for applications developed with the Google App Engine SDK, running entirely on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure...anyone can use a modified SDK to deploy their App Engine apps directly to Amazon EC2 instead of Google, and they work with
google  amazon  appengine  ec2  python  aws  hack  appdrop  cloud  portability  migration 
april 2008 by sogrady
Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
"Google may be releasing BigTable...as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source...There are also rumors that press is being pre-briefed on the product, although we haven’t been contacted by Google." nor have we
google  database  bigtable  cloud  amazon  scalability  computing 
april 2008 by sogrady
If I Were a CTO at IBM - "Blue Cloud Stuff" | John M Willis ESM Blog
wow. pretty harsh indictment of the IBM Blue Cloud messaging.
ibm  blue  cloud  johnwillis  amazon  tivoli 
april 2008 by sogrady
Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books - New York Times
" 'Our feeling is that D.R.M. is not actually doing anything to prevent piracy,' said Ms. McIntosh of Random House Audio." - finally
drm  audiobooks  piracy  publishing  books  amazon  randomhouse  barnesandnoble 
march 2008 by sogrady
AWS, uptime, downtime and information at Pensieri di un lunatico minore
wherein Chris essentially says exactly what i would have re: the Amazon outage, only more succinctly and eloquently
chrispetrilli  amazon  outage  sla  uptime  contingencyplanning  aws 
february 2008 by sogrady
The Economics of Online Backup - Inside Lightroom
though for larger datasets the economics are worth looking at
amazon  analysis  backups  bandwidth  s3  storage  economics  cloud 
february 2008 by sogrady
Twitter / Stanislav Shalunov: Amazon web services: 3x the...
"Amazon web services: 3x the price, 0.5x the reliability, and lower scalability than DYI. Buy only for the low capex and lead time." - don't buy this, personally, because it doesn't factor in the cost of maintenance. i.e. my time vs Amazon's time.
amazon  pricing  stanislavsalunov  reliability  diy  cloud  via:tim 
february 2008 by sogrady
Virtualization and Personal Web Hosting (by Jeremy Zawodny)
"I essentially said that when my existing web servers--those physically hosted up in a data center in San Francisco--finally give up, I'll probably replace them with a few VM images running on a yet-to-be-discovered virtual machine hosting provider." - di
virtualization  jeremyzawodny  hosting  amazon  ec2 
february 2008 by sogrady
John Sequeira's Weblog - Elastra delivers scalable OLTP. For Real?
scalable OLTP for Amazon EC2/S3? for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and EnterpriseDB? should be chatting about this shortly
elastra  oltp  amazon  ec2  s3  mysql  postgresql  enterprisedb  cloud  johnsequeira 
february 2008 by sogrady
Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka
"So here's the question: how much of our life that we share with the Web 2.0 giants do we really *need* to share? How much of these services can and should we be running from the comfort of our own homes?"
cloud  centralization  privacy  security  web2.0  amazon  google  flickr  openservices  via:luis 
january 2008 by sogrady
Sun acquires MySQL II at Jeremy’s Blog
"I’d expect Sun to offer some kind of “MySQL in the cloud” service that could be one component in a service offering that competes with Amazon an its S3/EC2/SimpleDB offerings." - i hope so, but haven't seen signs of this myself yet. great roundup,
jeremy  linuxquestions  mysql  sun  m&a  cloud  amazon  ec2  s3  simpledb 
january 2008 by sogrady
Twitter / Rafe: Just heard that the Amazon....
"Just heard that the Amazon.com SimpleDB team was hired en masse from the SQL Server team at Microsoft." - i hadn't heard this one. interesting.
amazon  microsoft  simpledb  sqlserver  databases  hiring  poaching 
january 2008 by sogrady
Zmanda offers backup to Amazon S3 | Underexposed - CNET News.com
"The partnership spotlights the growing influence of Amazon's S3, which provides customers with online storage whose costs are tied to the amount of storage needed." - that it does, doesn't it?
amazon  zmanda  amanda  s3  stephenshankland 
january 2008 by sogrady
Cohesive Flexible Technologies - Elastic Server Info
another cloud management third party. some of these folks will eventually be snapped up.
amazon  ec2  hosting  server  virtualization  management 
january 2008 by sogrady
Amazon Web Services Blog: Increasing Amazon S3 Data Transfer Performance
can't wait, given the increasing volume of data i've made Amazon's problem
amazon  aws  bandwidth  beta  performance  s3  via:jeff 
january 2008 by sogrady
Weblog |
"What's most interesting to are how these clouds are been driven by consumer facing companies...that claim the enterprise state of art won't cut it at scale. This seems...like the desktop computer revolution...consumer tech that infects the enterprise."
billdehóra  cloud  computing  utility  hp  amazon  google  ebay  assumptions 
january 2008 by sogrady
Thrudb - faster, cheaper than SimpleDB - igvita.com
"Developed by Jake Luciani as part of his ThruDB platform which currently powers JunkDepot, it is a highly scalable document-oriented database ideal for deployment on virtual (Amazon EC2+S3) or dedicated infrastructure."
thrudb  thrudoc  ec2  s3  couchdb  aws  amazon  berkeleydb  database  scalability 
december 2007 by sogrady
Eventually Consistent - All Things Distributed
"Inconsistency can tolerated for two reasons...Whether or not inconsistencies are acceptable depends on the client application."
eventual  consistency  amazon  architecture  database  distributed  distributed-computing  scalability  wernervogels 
december 2007 by sogrady
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | On the importance of being megadata
"Amazon has opened SimpleDB for beta testers. As you would expect the system is designed to scale and as such has dropped generic relational operations such as joins and transactions."
joegregorio  amazon  architecture  database  megadata  scalability  simpledb  saas  haas 
december 2007 by sogrady
Amazon SimpleDB's non-REST API
Tim's right: the API is pissing a lot of people off
amazon  api  rest  get  simpledb 
december 2007 by sogrady
Eventual consistency at Pensieri di un lunatico minore
"With the announcement of SimpleDB, Amazon has put together the last major piece needed for a fully cloud-based development approach...I see a few things that are both game-changing...First, you no longer do you have to buy any infrastructure." - indeed
amazon  simpledb  chrispetrilli  haas  saas 
december 2007 by sogrady
Amazon.com: Amazon Web Services (2): Help: Amazon Web Services (2) FAQ & More
in agreement with the peanut gallery that this is a.) important and b.) interesting
2007  amazon  api  aws  cloud  coding  commercial  database  simpledb 
december 2007 by sogrady
Sam Ruby: Eventual Consistency
"Amazon SimpleDB [via Simon Willison]. Erlang. Schemaless. Cool." - agreed.
samruby  amazon  simpledb  schemaless  database  free  barriers-to-entry 
december 2007 by sogrady
Amazon to host Red Hat Linux online | Underexposed - CNET News.com
this is big news, for several reasons (yes, a Q&A is in the works)
amazon  redhat  rhel  haas  cloud  hosted 
november 2007 by sogrady
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EC2 Gets More Muscle
all good, except for the "EC2 Compute Unit" - that sounds like MIPS all over again
amazon  ec2  64bit  applications  cpu  ram  scalability 
october 2007 by sogrady
Photo Matt » S3 News
"We’re now using S3 as the primary storage for WordPress.com, rather than just for backups." - and people keep telling me it's not for anything "serious"...
wordpress.com  amazon  s3  mattmullenweg  varnish 
october 2007 by sogrady
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