Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Amazon
Bring your own Windows license for EC2, but where are Microsoft?
Posted by on March 25, 2010
This is interesting, Amazon have announced a pilot scheme to allow customers with a Microsoft Enterprise agreement to port their Windows licenses to EC2, which they say reduces the average cost of a Windows EC2 instance by up to 41% (interesting to see where the infrastructure/software cost split is – maybe this is why [...]
Top Marks for Amazon Customer Services
Posted by on February 21, 2010
I have been doing some experimenting with a cheap-ish SSH drive that I purchased last year; over the last week it has become unreliable and got to the stage where I could no longer remove any partitions, even using DBAN and clean OS installs reported a disk error. It was past the 30 day [...]
Private Connectivity to Amazon EC2 – your own Private Cloud, in the Cloud
Posted by on August 26, 2009
VPN connectivity and private networking within EC2 are now available, this is great news – I mused on the possibilities of this sort of thing previously in this post. This is a key step to gaining corporate acceptance, and proves that there is definitely still a use case and demand for a private cloud, [...]
Workload Portability: Ultimate Cloud Edition
Posted by on January 23, 2009
I like the PlateSpin range of products a lot, it really does let you take an OS instance + app stack (workload) and move it between different physical machines, hypervisors etc. in a low impact way – if you’ve not come across it before – read this post for more info I see this [...]
Easy to Understand Overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Posted by on January 16, 2009
Brent Ozar has an excellent post here explaining how Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be used in a practical sense with a worked example. It makes it easy to understand why you could use AWS if you’ve had trouble getting your head around what this could stuff is.
Cloud Wars: VMWare vs Microsoft vs Google vs Amazon Clouds
Posted by on October 1, 2008
A short time ago in a data centre, far far away….. All the big players are setting out their cloud pitches, Microsoft are set to make some big announcements at their Professional Developer Conference at the end of October and VMWare made their VDC-OS announcements at VMWorld a couple of weeks ago, Google have [...]
Free EMC Celerra for your Home/Lab
Posted by on July 9, 2008
Virtualgeek has an interesting post here about a freely downloadable VM version of their Celerra product, including an HA version. This is an excellent idea for testing and lab setups, and a powerful tool in your VM Lab arsenal alongside other offerings like Xtravirt Virtual SAN and OpenFiler. I’ve been saying for a while [...]
Performance Expectations on a Shared Virtual Platform
Posted by on March 12, 2008
Some interesting discussion linked-to within this article on Storagezilla. people using Amazon’s EC2 platform are complaining because they feel they are getting less performance than they should. Always an interesting point to bear in mind and useful in expectation setting for developers. You may want a dedicated CPU/core – but do you really need [...]
