Tag: Amazon
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Amazon wants you to grow dope!
When I logged into Amazon today with my company account I was prompted to buy dope growing equipment. Perhaps this is simply a prelude to Amazon taking Bitcoin? For the avoidance of doubt: I don’t grow dope and believe that in listing and promoting such drug paraphernalia Amazon is probably breaking the law.
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Accessing Webmin as http://localhost:10000 through an ssh tunnel
If you have an EC2 server it is great to install Webmin on it but it undesirable to expose it through the EC2 firewall. An easier and more secure way to access it is using PuTTY to create a tunnel from a local port to a remote port. When you have done this you can…
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Amazon announce data warehouse back end solution
Today Amazon announced Redshift a data warehouse service based on PostgreSQL: Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Redshift offers you fast query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications you use today. With…
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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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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 