Tag: load balancing
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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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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, choreographing the creation of an entire system, for example a load-balanced, three-tier system remains difficult.…
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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 small app developer needs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta) Easy to begin, Impossible to outgrow AWS…
Dr James Bayley 