Category: Cloud
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Amazon Web Services provides a facility to sell unused capacity
One of the potential risks of buying reserved instances on the Amazon cloud is that you might buy more than you need. This has been a consideration for me for hosting the Keyapt app. Now Amazon lets you sell excess capacity to other users. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace The Reserved Instance Marketplace gives you the…
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Amazon Web Services internal load balancing
This is a very nice feature from Amazon that allows the adoption of a more scalable and secure infrastructure. Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, We are excited to announce that you can now create a load balancer in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (“VPC”) for internal load balancing. With this new feature, you can balance…
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Amazon CloudSearch for your company’s data
The remorseless march of Amazon continues… Announcing Amazon CloudSearchWe are pleased to announce the launch of Amazon CloudSearch, a fully-managed search service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale search applications. Amazon CloudSearch enables customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a search service. Customers don’t…
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Amazon Elastic Beanstalk now support PHP and Git deployment
Could be fun for custom WordPress deployments or suchlike. Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports a PHP runtime and Git deployment. Elastic Beanstalk already makes it easier to quickly deploy and manage Java applications on the AWS cloud. Now, Elastic Beanstalk offers the same functionality…
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AWS disaster recovery in the cloud
An interesting event from AWS Are you interested in implementing disaster recovery in the cloud for your websites or applications, including enterprise applications from Oracle, SAP and Microsoft? Attend this webinar on 28 March 2012, 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET and learn more about how organizations are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to implement their disaster…
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Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer • The Register
An interesting article on Windows 8 Server. Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer More than just a few tweaks… via Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer • The Register. Windows Server has always been the choice of businesses for system administration and file storage. The only significant competitive advantage that Linux/Unix had was…
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Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed
I am interested in Amazon’s new NoSQL database DynamoDB. We develop Android applications and a core requirement is scalable session management. This seems to be a primary use of DynamoDB. Dynamo was born out of our need for a highly reliable, ultra-scalable key/value database. This non-relational, or NoSQL, database was targeted at use cases that…
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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 management systems (CMS). Amazon CloudFront: Announces Support for Delivery of Files up to 20 GB…
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Amazon S3 object expiration
Over the Christmas period Amazon announced. Today we’re excited to announce Object Expiration, a new feature to help you efficiently manage data stored in Amazon S3. Object Expiration enables you to schedule the removal of objects after a defined time period. This is very cool. Chron jobs are always problematic, it is much better to…
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EC2 reserved instances for baseload
Amazon recently announced new options for their EC2 reserved instances. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/?ref_=pe_8050_22086710 With this product you pay a small amount up-front for a reserved instance and in exchange Amazon will lower your hourly rate. The more you pay the lower the hourly rate. Keyapt SMS have a server that runs continuously. Therefore we should look a…
Dr James Bayley 