Three key things to know about moving MySQL into the cloud. July 13, 2009 by Morgan Tocker11 Comments The question “what problems will I have when migrating to the cloud” gets asked often enough.
If by cloud you mean Amazon EC2, then from a technical perspective there isn’t much that changes. Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Monster Muck Mashup - By Mitch Garnaat Over the past year or so, Amazon has been expanding it's line of infrastructural web services.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos likes to call this collection of services muck, meaning these kinds of services are difficult to build in a scalable manner. That's exactly what this article will focus on: combining three of these scalable services from AWS using an architecture that allows us to build robust, reliable, and scalable compute services. While the basic architecture described here could be applied to many different application areas, this article will focus on building a service to solve a specific problem that I run into regularly: video format conversion. Like most people today, I have made the transition from film cameras to digital cameras.
Inside looking out » What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB. What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB December 13th, 2007 Well after being under NDA for so long, I’m glad to be able to say that Amazon SimpleDB has gone into limited beta.
Congratulations to everyone on the SDS / SimpleDB team; their several years of work on SimpleDB (formerly called SDS) is a brilliant piece of engineering. What’s cool about SimpleDB Really large data sets Really Fast Highly Available – It’s Amazon.