IBM devworks article on howto migrate a Linux application to the Amazon EC2 cloud and howto make your application more robust by employing a load balancer and persistent disk.
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IBM howto migrate a GNU/Linux app to the Cloud
Friday, August 6th, 2010Amazon adds S3 support to the AWS Management Console.
Friday, June 25th, 2010The AWS Management Console now provides a simple and intuitive web interface for managing your Amazon S3 resources.
Amazon VPC is now available in EU
Friday, June 25th, 2010Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is now available in Europe
Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon VPC in Europe. AWS customers can now connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources in the EU via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and use their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources
NASA Nebula Ubuntu cloud
Saturday, June 19th, 2010According to The Register NASA have started to build a private Nebula Cloud based on Ubuntu 10 and Eucalyptus Enterprise 2 which will likely underpin websites across the federal government.
Eucalyptus Enterprise works with the Xen and KVM hypervisors and the latest version has now been ported to VMware hypervisors as well, allowing for installation atop VMware’s vSphere, ESXi, and ESX virtualization technologies. The Eucalyptus Enterprise edition also includes an image converter that helps users develop VMware-based applications that are compatible with Amazon EC2.
Ubuntu 10.04 UEC EC2 AMIs
Friday, April 30th, 2010Ubuntu 10.04 UEC AMIs are now available for use and have been published to Ubuntu UEC Amazon EC2, and can be used immediately with no need to download anything. For further instruction on getting started with Amazon EC2, see the Ubuntu UEC Amazon EC2 Starters Guide.
AWS Asia Pacific Region
Thursday, April 29th, 2010AWS have just announced the launch of its first Asia Pacific Region in Singapore. Starting today, Asia Pacific-based businesses and global businesses with customers based in Asia can leverage AWS’s cloud infrastructure platform to build their businesses and run their applications.
ibm.com developerworks cloud series
Friday, January 29th, 2010The ibm.com developerworks cloud series explores the major types of cloud services and related software that you can use to build Web-scale systems.
In Part 1, learn how Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds provide basic services you can use to deploy and run your applications. The article also discusses how Eucalyptus can be used as an infrastructure to create public or private clouds.
In Part 2, learn about AppScale and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing. Explore the features and architecture of this virtual infrastructure. It’s a great way to test your Google App Engine applications on your local resources or virtualized cloud infrastructures, such as Amazon EC2 or Eucalyptus.
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
Thursday, January 14th, 2010AWS Management Console Adds Support for Elastic Load Balancing
AWS has added support for Elastic Load Balancing to the AWS Management Console. Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Now you can use a simple, point-and-click web interface to create and configure load balancers for your Amazon EC2 applications.
Access to the AWS Management Console is provided free of charge at https://console.aws.amazon.com
Amazon EC2 can now boot from Amazon EBS snapshots
Friday, December 4th, 2009Amazon EC2 has just announced the ability to boot instances directly from Amazon EBS snapshots, providing increased flexibility in how customers can manage their instances.
You can still save an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in an Amazon S3 bucket and boot it from the local instance store, but you can now also choose to save AMIs as Amazon EBS snapshots and boot directly from an Amazon EBS volume.
JumpBox Omeka pricing
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009JumpBox Omeka Amazon AMI & VMware VM pricing