Tag: Amazon Web Services
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node.js, WordPress and Google App Engine
node.js Google App Engine is very cool. It hides all the complexity of creating a highly available, load-balanced and scalable application. It is a very natural fit for node.js applications. You can quickly and easily achieve “Google Scale”. This is explained in this great video, https://youtu.be/yiOtZDICUfI There is a synergy between node.js and Google App…
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Scaling Kim Kardashian’s back end
I would be the first to admit that I am not a close follower of popular culture but finally someone has found a way of making it interesting to geeks. Here is an article about serving up millions of images of Kim Kardashian’s naked bottom. So if you think varnish is hot this is for…
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Amazon AWS adds another high availability solution – DNS Failover
In the past each “9” on your availability cost about 10x more. So for example, 99.99% availability cost 10x more than 99.9% availability. Amazon is making inroads into these costs. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk already offers inexpensive load balancing that will direct users to working nodes and even start additional nodes when demand increases. That’s great…
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“Big data” on AWS – Redshift
“Big data” is hot, hot, hot (Gartner hype cycle) and now supported by Amazon Web Services. Although pitched as “Big data” it will be very interesting to see the tools offering. I provide services to small to medium-sized enterprises and I am interested in how AWS can support the data warehousing requirements of these organisations.…
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AWS tools for Windows PowerShell
One of the most popular posts on my blog is my comparison of Windows PowerShell with Unix utilities. Readers may be interested to learn that AWS now has PowerShell tools.
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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 support Python
Python is the new kid on the block. A relatively easy to use interpreted language. AWS have recognised this. Here is the press release (some what late). Dear AWS Customer, We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications. Elastic Beanstalk is an easy and fast way to deploy and manage…
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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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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…
Dr James Bayley 