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AWS CloudHSM FAQs
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Cloud Model Checklist :: Ubuntu Insights
You have critical decisions ahead as you take your first steps into cloud computing. One of them will be whether to build a private cloud infrastructure in your own data centre, make use of one of the public cloud services offered by vendors like Amazon, Rackspace and HP, or combine the two in a ‘hybrid cloud’ approach. This short, sharp checklist takes you through the process that points you in the right direction and ensures your investments pay off from the start. Download it today. Please enter your details to view the checklist 'Cloud Model Checklist'We introduced a set of EC2 instance status checks at the beginning of the year. These status checks are the results of automated tests performed by EC2 on every running instance that detect hardware and software issues. As described in my original post, there are two types of tests: system status checks and instance status checks. The test results are available in the AWS Management Console and can also be accessed through the command line tools and the EC2 APIs. New Metrics In order to make it even easier for you to monitor and respond to the status checks, we are now making them available as Amazon CloudWatch metrics at no charge. There are three metrics for each instance, each updated at 5 minute intervals:
EC2 Instance Status Metrics
Amazon CloudFront - Support for Dynamic Content
Introduction Amazon CloudFront 's network of edge locations ( currently 30 , with more in the works) gives you the ability to distribute static and streaming content to your users at high speed with low latency. Today we are introducing a set of features that, taken together, allow you to use CloudFront to serve dynamic, personalized content more quickly. What is Dynamic Personalized Content? As you know, content on the web is identified by a URL, or Uniform Resource Locator such as http://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/console_cw_est_charge_service_2.png .
Continuing along in our quest to give you the tools that you need to build ridiculously powerful web sites and applications in no time flat at the lowest possible cost, I'd like to introduce you to Amazon CloudSearch . If you have ever searched Amazon.com , you've already used the technology that underlies CloudSearch. You can now have a very powerful and scalable search system (indexing and retrieval) up and running in less than an hour. You, sitting in your corporate cubicle, your coffee shop, or your dorm room, now have access to search technology at a very affordable price.
Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
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Cloudpaging is a foundational technology framework and represents our vision to transform native software delivery, deployment and provisioning from the Cloud - public, private or on-premises. This is not new for us - through our Endeavors subsidiary, we have been at the forefront of application virtualization and streaming since 1999 and have the 10 foundational patents in the field. Cloudpaging embodies everything we learnt in the intervening years - but incorporates a broader set of new and disruptive technologies to make that vision a reality. We believe this technology will mark the end of digital downloads (known as the download hell) as well as any native software installation (known as the DLL hell). Our goal is simple - we want native software delivery to be as simple, agile, rapid and as friction-free as a single click on a website. Our mission is to be to software, what Dropbox is to data - yet with the license control the rights-holders need to protect their assets.The Amazon CloudWatch team has just released new sample scripts for monitoring memory and disk space usage on your Amazon EC2 instances running Linux. You can run these scripts on your instances and configure them to report memory and disk space usage metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. Once the metrics are submitted to CloudWatch, you can view graphs, calculate statistics and set alarms on them in the CloudWatch console or via the CloudWatch API . Available metrics include: Memory Utilization (%) Memory Used (MB) Memory Available (MB) Swap Utilization (%) Swap Used (MB) Disk Space Utilization (%) Disk Space Used (GB) Disk Space Available (GB) The instance memory and disk space usage metrics are reported as Amazon CloudWatch Custom Metrics.
New Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts
Software Engineering & Development | Why the Cloud isn't for your Startup
The Lure You’re a new startup, you’re tight on funds and don’t have the server knowledge to run your own servers, but you plan on growing exponentially very quickly. You have three choices:
Amazon CloudFront - Support for 20 GB Objects
Tonight we have a post written by a guest blogger! Alex Dunlap is a Senior Manager on the AWS Team, responsible for Product Management for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. Take it away, Alex... -- Jeff; Jeff reached out to me recently and asked if I’d be willing to provide a guest post on the AWS blog, to give you a bit of insight into what we’re up to on one of the teams that build and operate AWS services. That sounded like a great idea to me, and I’m happy to be the first of what I’m sure will be many AWS service managers who write a post here to AWS users directly.
We have added three more Amazon CloudFront / Route 53 edge locations, bringing the total number of global locations to 24. The new locations are in New York, Indiana, and San Jose, California. The AWS Global Infrastructure map includes a complete list. I sat down with some members of the CloudFront team to learn more about the process of selecting and building out new locations for CloudFront and Route 53.
Three More CloudFront / Route 53 Edge Locations - New York, Indiana, San Jose
10 disruptive cloud companies we’re excited about
There is so much happening right now in emerging cloud computing — the entire economy is being disrupted by the trend. With publicly-traded giants like Amazon, Google, VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce lurching around with new and improved services that can help businesses with cost and efficiency gains, sometimes it’s easy to miss the hot players that are up-and-coming. We’ve assembled a list of ten private cloud companies that we think are particularly intriguing — they’re focused on massive opportunities and leading the disruption in the sector they’re targeting. Any venture capitalist would be psyched to have invested early into this portfolio of ten. Frankly, there are hundreds of exciting companies that could have made this list — we’ve seen and like a lot of them — but as editors, we’ve forced ourselves to winnow it down to ten. Seven companies on the list improve the way things work in the enterprise.New CloudyScript: Detect Port Ranges « Elastic Security
Amazon EC2 uses the notion of Security Groups to let users define inbound firewall rules (called permissions) that are dynamically applied to all server instances that are part of the group. This concept is easy and very powerful at the same time, since permissions must be configured once only and are then applied like a template to all future server instances – contrarily to traditional firewalls, where rules are defined for every server. At the other hand, wrong configurations have a higher impact since all server instances of a misconfigured group are affected. Thus, the configuration of security groups and attribution to launched instances should be done very carefully. One very frequent misconfiguration is to open complete port-ranges for public IP addresses. It may also happen that third party EC2 tools use the API to create security groups with open port ranges to facilitate their own access and thereby exposing your infrastructure.Wipro Builds A Private Cloud For OnStream | Virtualization.com
Wipro Technologies has built a private cloud for OnStream Utility Metering Services Limited. OnStream provides gas and electricity metering solutions in the United Kingdom. OnStream is part of National Grid Group, which is one of the largest energy delivery businesses in the world and the largest investor-owned utility in the United Kingdom. Wipro initiated the private cloud project for OnStream in October 2010. OnStream replaced its existing legacy IT infrastructure with a new service driven model using a private cloud approach.The 10 Worst Cloud Outages: Lessons Learned
Cloud computing is proven to be able to help businesses to increase productivity and cut costs – not mentioning to help them to be greener businesses . However, cloud computing also poses risks to businesses; those who are unaware about the risks will suffer from disrupted business operations, as well as damaged business reputation. One of the most notable cloud computing risks is cloud outages. Cloud service disruptions affect those whose applications and business operations are stored in the cloud – and the impact is not minimal. InfoWorld has compiled the 10 worst cloud outages for us to learn – so we will be ready when the next outage hits the cloud solutions we use:It won't surprise anyone to hear that established companies aren't moving their most important apps and data to the cloud -- at least not yet -- but, we got confirmation on that from some of the leading cloud vendors and some of the most progressive cloud adopters, who all gathered this week at the Structure Conference in San Francisco to talk about the state of the cloud. On Wednesday, at a panel called The Future of Cloud Computing, a group of these cloud leaders were put on the spot to provide commentary on the unveiling of the 2011 Future of Cloud Computing Survey , a joint effort between North Bridge, GigaOM Pro, and 451 Group. The top three points I came away with from the survey and the panelists were: Cloud computing is still in the first inning Most companies aren't moving their mission critical systems to the cloud The most enthusiastic cloud adopters are small businesses and startups
Top cloud candidates? Startups and non-critical apps
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