Introduction. In year 11 my German teacher marked me with a 66% score.
It was too much for my pride to bear. My self-image was that of a nerd, always getting 90% plus. The thought of doing German in year 12 and “failing” dizzied me. I dropped German and chose Computer Science. In year 12 I achieved 100% in Computer Science. I ambled along though a Computer Engineering degree. I’ve worked about 8 different jobs both permanent and as a contractor, worked in England and Australia, and done my share of geeky other things.
Most of the systems I’ve helped put in have been replaced. This blog is a place to leave a trail and state my opinions about technology and business and for other geeks to shoot them down! I will write about new technology, people in IT, organisational dysfunction, and my own life-learnings as an IT geek. I’ll try to write lean and jargon free. Oh… and I still wish I knew how to speak a second language Like this: Like Loading... Dissecting Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB): 18 Facts - Part 3. 13.
Amazon ELB does not provide logs - Amazon ELB currently does not provide access to its log files for analysis. We cannot debug load balancing problems, analyze the traffic and access patterns; categorize bots / visitors etc currently because we do not have access to the ELB logs. This will also be a bottleneck for some organizations which have strong audit/compliance requirements to be met at all layers of their infrastructure. Amazon ELB can generate the logs and put in Amazon S3 buckets– (feature request to Amazon ELB product team) 14. AWS CloudWatch is a convenient service to monitor your AWS resources, yet the level of inter-dependency of AWS services isn’t always clear — in other words, it may not be reliable in the event of an outage. 15.
SSL termination can be done at the Amazon ELB Tier, which means connection is encrypted between Client (browser etc.) and Amazon ELB, but the connection between ELB and Web/App EC2 is clear. 16. Amazon continues California expansion, plans massive warehouse near San Fra. An Amazon fulfillment center.
Amazon.com isn’t messing around when it comes to expansion in California. The Seattle online retailer today announced that it plans to open a new 1-million square-foot fulfillment center in outside of San Francisco in Tracy, California. It marks the third announced fulfillment center in California for Amazon, which opened its first facility in San Bernardino just three months ago. Another facility in Patterson is set to open this summer. Amazon AWS Takes Down Netflix On Christmas Eve. Amazon Partners With Cloud vLab To Teach Developers How To Use AWS. Nobody has ever accused Amazon Web Services of hiding its complexities.
It seems even Amazon acknowledges that getting started with its ever-expanding cloud services platform isn’t easy. For a while now, Amazon has offered a number of instructor-led classes, but today the company also announced that it has partnered with Cloud vLab, one of its APN technology partners, to provide developers with a set of self-paced online training labs. Each one of these labs costs $29.99. The labs, Amazon says, were designed by AWS subject-matter experts and are meant to help developers ” test products, acquire new skills, and gain practical experience working with AWS technologies.” Most of the training happens in a live AWS environment and developers use the AWS console “in a variety of pre-designed scenarios and common use cases.” The classes cover basic skills, including how to create an EC2 instance and how to use Elastic Block Store, Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.
New Amazon CloudHSM service vows enterprise-grade security. Amazon Web Services runs on tons and tons of shared hardware.
That’s a huge benefit in terms of cost but also spooks customers with strict regulatory requirements that prevent them from running their applications on shared infrastructure. But now, as Amazon tries to woo these picky customers, it’s trying to replicate some of the perks that come with dedicated, on-premises hardware. That’s what the new CloudHSM service is about. Traditionally, a Hardware Security Module is a dedicated, hardened box for storing keys and running cryptography. Amazon says it can bring that dedicated security to its customers within its infrastructure. In a Tuesday night blog post, Amazon said CloudHSM: “brings the benefits of HSMs to the cloud. Each CloudHSM provisioned for the customer incurs an upfront, one-time $5,000 fee and then an hourly rate of $1.88 per hour or $1,373 per month.
Amazon Web Services Leading Cloud Infrastructure as a Service App Developme. Evangelizing development on any cloud computing or enterprise platform is challenging, costly and takes a unique skill set that can educate, persuade, sell and serve developers at the same time.
The companies who excel at this exude technical prowess and as a result earn and keep trust. For Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform providers, getting developers, both at partner companies and at enterprise customers to build applications, is a critical catalyst for future growth. Assessing Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Providers with Inquiry Analytics Using the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, 2012 published October 18, 2012 as the baseline and shown above from Rueven Cohen’s excellent post last year, the five leaders were compared using the Inquiry Analytics Statistics: Topic and Vendor Mind Share for Software, 4Q12 published March 13th of this year.