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Tag Archives: Cloud computing
CloudFront now supports 20 GB downloads
An interesting announcement from Amazon AWS. Now CloudFront can be used to deliver even the largest types training materials and software. The ability to use custom origins will be interesting to users who store their content in their own content … Continue reading
CloudBase Meetup – relational databases don’t scale
Last night I attended the CloudBase Meetup at Hackney Community College that was arranged by Shawn of Tech Meetups (well done Shawn). It was a good venue if rather hard to find and escape from. The speakers were: Steve Caughey, … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Infrastructure
Tagged Amazon EC2, cloud, Cloud computing, Database, IBM, MongoDB, NoSQL, Relational database
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Jenkins and Hudson; from below stairs to cloud 9
A continuous integration server is an essential part of many teams’ workflow so I have been following the on-off relationship of Jenkins and Hudson with some interest. I already use cloudy issue control (in fact I sell training for FogBugz) … Continue reading
Amazon Content Delivery Network
In an earlier post I refered to Damon Hart-Davis’ investigation of cloud services because it followed the same path as my own with similar conclusions. He has now published a fourth part on Amazon Content Delivery Network (CDN). A CDN … Continue reading
Cloud Computing World Forum review – Microsoft strong, others weak
I attended the Cloud Computing World Forum at Olympia on Tuesday. It was good size show and reasonably well attended for what is an Enterprise topic. The keynote speakers were all heavyweight and gave good talks. The show was themed … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Business models, Infrastructure, Railo and ColdFusion, Windows Phone 7
Tagged Android, Cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Software as a service, Windows Phone 7
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Amazon IAM does not support Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Identity and Authorisation Management is now out of beta and has both a GUI and a command line unfortunately it still does not work with Elastic Beanstalk. It gets worse. You single username and password provides complete access to … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Infrastructure
Tagged Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing
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Joy reigns with AWS CloudFormation
Amazon’s relentless drive to make infrastructure management easier continues with their announcement of AWS CloudFormation. The big problem that ordinary people (well developers and techies anyway) have with cloudy stuff is that although it is easy to start-up one server, … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Railo and ColdFusion
Tagged Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing, load balancing, SkyNet
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud
This came today. It is quite interesting. Scalable cloud management on Amazon. It is “free” which contrasts with other offerings. My guess is that even the most basic of cloud management offering from Amazon will do 90% of what a … Continue reading
