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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables your business to connect your existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend your existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include your AWS resources. Today, [...]
RightLink From RightScale
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009RightLink is the agent installed on every server running under RightScale. It is a combination of the Nanite message bus and the Opscode Chef configuration management system. Servers running the RightLink agent configure themselves on startup and register with the Nanite mapper, which facilitates communication with other servers and the RightScale core system. The primary [...]
Hadoop and Cascading – AJUG – 07/21/09
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Sorry for the shaken hand-held production. My tripod broke… Look at it this way Content is King and Chris Curtin’s content was brilliant.
Amazon Cloud Big News
Monday, May 18th, 2009Monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources, starting with Amazon EC2. It provides customers with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns — including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. To use Amazon CloudWatch, simply select the Amazon EC2 instances [...]
Amazon’s New Elastic Map Reduce
Sunday, April 5th, 2009Amazon has offered a new web service that provides Hadoop services called Elastic Map Reduce. Hadoop is a Java based framework that implements Map Reduce. Map Reduce is a method of programming that gives a program the capability of breaking a job up into hundreds or even thousands of separate parallel processes. [...]
VideoPalooza
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009I wanted tobook mark some cool links around video trancodeing and encoding…
Video Transcoding Software | Zencoder
via Delicious/awsbuzz by awsbuzz on 2/24/09
Bamboo Blog – Panda – open source video encoding powered by Merb, EC2, S3 and SimpleDB
via Delicious/awsbuzz by awsbuzz on 2/24/09
On2 Technologies and Zencoder Partner to Create On-Demand Video Encoding Service
via Delicious/awsbuzz by [...]
Will Capgemini convince enterprises to trust the cloud?
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Or IBM?
Will Capgemini convince enterprises to trust the cloud?
Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008Go figure, over at Developerworks there is a four part series on AWS. It is also written by an Atlanta native and Awsome member, Prabhakar Chaganti (prabhakar@ylastic.com), CTO, Ylastic, LLC.
Cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, Part 4: Reliable messaging with SQS
In this series, learn about cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. Explore how the services [...]
RightAWS 1.9.0 released
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008RightAWS 1.9.0 Ruby interface for all AWS cloud services. It now includes support for the EC2 windows features as well for CloudFront. Plus a number of bug fixes as well as enhancements. Download from http://rubyforge.org/projects/rightaws
Awsome Meetup 11/11/08 – Google App Engine and Ylastic
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Agenda:
7:00 Google App Engine
Noah Gift, local Atlanta Python and GAE expert, will be giving a presentation on Google App Engine. Noah is currently working on a GAE book for O’Reilly.
8:00 Ylastic
A local Atlanta cloud vendor will show their Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboard and tools. They will also be able to talk about some of [...]
Yes Virginia, the enterprise is using the cloud.
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Here is another great example of how out enterprise will start moving certain solutions to the cloud…
SOASTA – Load Testing From the Cloud
Awsome Cloud Meetups in Atlanta
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008We will be having two Awsome meetings in November. On Nov 3 Jinesh Varia an Amazon Web Service Technology Evangelist has offered to meet with our group. On Nov 11 we will have our regularly scheduled meeting with Ylastic presentaing AWS dashboard. They will also pitch in and help with some newbie “getting started” workshop [...]
Jungle Disk to be Aquired by Rackspace
Monday, October 27th, 2008Local Atalanta AWS based company Jungle Disk to be acquired by Rackspace. He is the JD blog article that describes the transaction…
Jungle Disk and Rackspace
Jungle Dave · October 22, 2008 at 1:00 pm ·
What do you do when the rain forest is on fire?
Saturday, October 25th, 2008I have no idea, however Amazon’s Web Services is on fire…
Here is what they are up to lately:
Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone.
There’s now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2.
Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2.
Microsoft SQL Server is now available in beta form [...]
Showtime – Windows on EC2
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Windows on EC2 Documentation
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Feature Guide: Amazon EC2 Running Windows
Amazon S3 Tiers Pricing
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Current storage price (through Oct 31, 2008)
US: $0.150 per GB
EU: $0.180 per GB
New storage price (effective Nov 1, 2008)
US
$0.150 First 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.140 Next 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.130 Next 400 TB / month of storage used
$0.120 Storage used / month over 500 TB
EU
$0.180 First 50 TB / month [...]
Photoblogs and Amazon S3
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Photoblogs and Amazon S3
Windows on Amazon’s Cloud
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Amazon EC2 running Windows Server
Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating [...]
Awsome Meetup with RightScale
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Rightscale has been kind enough to come to our little neck of the woods and talk clouds at our next meetup. We are still firming up the agenda but it should be a fun night in the clouds.
Oct 14th Meetup
Location
Georgia Tech ATDC
75 5th Street, NW
ATDC Community Room 2cnd floor
Atlanta, GA 30308
