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I’ve been neglecting the blog for a while and feel sorry about that. The spring has been busy and will most likely stay like that, some bachelor parties and weddings and I am also going to be a dad in the beginning of June! The boy is already kicking strong!
But I also have some [...]

Dear Amazon, please make DevPay available in Europe!

So you have your great new application utilizing all the awesomeness of Amazon AWS? How you gonna sell it?
There are vague definitions of what is a cloud service and one of the prerequisites was that you could buy the service with your credit card and to pay only for the resources you use. Amazon DevPay [...]

Unexpected Outage

The site went down today for a few hours and the worst thing is, it was sort of my own fault. The last time I was playing with booting from Amazon EBS I must have made a mistake when detaching volumes from the (wrong) instances. Thus, the incident was caused by the EBS volume not [...]

Deploying applications instead of Virtual Machines

I’ve been thinking the relationship between operating systems and the reason why they exist – the applications. How does PaaS fit into the future of computing or is IaaS just a stepping stone to a world without the traditional one server, one application approach?
Having a background with enterprise IT, I know something (but not much) [...]

Booting from Amazon EBS

Amazon has announced a new feature of booting instances from EBS volume. This feature changes radically the way how AWS instances can be preserved if compared to the traditional volume bundling and uploading to S3.
Though this all sounds nice, it isn’t really too easy to convert existing instaces to boot from EBS. All previous instances [...]