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 [...]
Amazon ELB was announced in May and is currently in public beta phase. Previously, HAproxy was the way to go if a customer wanted load balancing within EC2 environment. Amazon ELB is an automatic load balancing solution which detects AWS instance health and distributes traffic accordingly, even across availability zones, but not across regions. The [...]
I have put together a task list of what I would like to test with the Amazon AWS infrastructure and so far I have gotten my web server running with EBS. Also the volume bundling and instance creation has been tested a few times. The system has been running quite ok for the past two [...]
We have a lottery draw every Saturday. It’s quite traditional in Finland and people are really active in playing it. Last week we had about 6.9 million Euros for the lucky person getting all seven numbers right. Finns played the game for a total of over 18 million Euros which was the new record. So [...]
There are probably as many definitions for cloud computing as there are people talking about it. Simon Wardley is one of my favourite speakers and he has given some excellent talks about cloud computing. Few focus on the definitions of what is cloud computing. If I would choose some of Mr. Wardley’s definitions it [...]
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