Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: EC2
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 [...]
Double-Take puts DR into the Cloud
Posted by on February 22, 2010
A colleague passed me this link today, Double-take have a new product offering allowing copies of app-servers to be replicated to and run on Amazon’s EC2 cloud service (register article here) – syncing disk writes in a delta fashion to an EC2 hosted AMI. I suggested a similar architecture last year using Platespin, recent [...]
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 [...]
Amazon EC2 Web Console
Posted by on January 12, 2009
I’ve been doing a bit of playing about with Amazon’s EC2 cloud services recently, this is just a quick post with some screenshots of the new beta web console they have launched. Up until now you had to control it via command line, or a firefox plug in – now Amazon have launched their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
