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Alexey Bokov — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:43:56 +0000

Amazon EC2 announced micro instances – 2 cents/hour

Alexey Bokov — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:41:59 +0000

Guys from EC2 announced micro instances – it costs 2 (two) cents per hour for linux and now it’s will costs less than traditional dedicated hosting with root access – monthly payment for EC2 micro instance will be about 15 USD, and price for root/linux on dedicated hosting will be about 30 USD/month. It’s really good news – you can have 100 boxes cluster just for two usd per hour! Bad thing is that micro instances don’t have their own disk space – EBS only, looks like this best ever use case for this type of instances will be highly-distributed computational grid with all data stored in RAM. And don’t forget that EBS will costs you some money – $0.10 per allocated GB per month Amazon EBS also charges $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests you make to your volume . Fredrick Poller’s already check out micro instances performance by sysbench : Amazon EC2 Micro instance, how fast is it?.

Cloud computing links – August 2010

Alexey Bokov — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:59:21 +0000

Shanghai releases 3-year cloud computing plan – Shanghai plans to use cloud computing technologies in urban management, industry development, e-government and small and medium-sized enterprise services

AWS related links :

State of the cloud – 2010 August
Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually – really interesting post – “at 40,000 servers evenly distributed across 6 availability zones we know, ___ 6,700 servers per zone..Most of the servers are likely in the US availability zones vs. the EU zones, maybe 75-80% of total capacity”. Also take a look on amazon ec2 instances usage rates
Anatomy of an Amazon EC2 Resource ID and based on this anatomy EC2 usage estimates
Rumor Mill: Google EC2 Competitor Coming in 2010?

Interesting links ( June/July 2010 )

Alexey Bokov — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:09:27 +0000

Amazon Web Services links – October/November 2009

Alexey Bokov — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:11:26 +0000

Update in Amazon Web Services:

2 high cpu instance types : 64 bits – Double Extra Large с 34.2 GB RAM, and 13 ECU (4 virtual cores *3.25 EC2 compute Unit=ECU), 64-bit platform
and Quadruple Extra Large – 68.4 GB of RAM/ 26 ECU (8 virtual cores* 3.25 ECU) : New EC2 High-Memory Instances

Instance prices changes ( us-east is still cheaper thatn eu-west ) : Amazon EC2 – Now an Even Better Value

New service for relational DB ( provisioning, scaling and other nice things ) : Introducing Amazon RDS – The Amazon Relational Database Service

Security stuff : Vulnerability identified in Amazon’s cloud computing

Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu at google groups

5 years ago Amazon announced Amazon Simple Queue Service – top points of AWS for last 5 years

SGE 6.2u4 – new update from Regensburg

Alexey Bokov — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:01:23 +0000

If anyone interested in it – here’s new update for Sun Grid Engine 6.2 – update 4. It almost about bug fixing and man’s changes – list of changes is here. Sources’ tag for CVS is V62u4_TAG (make sense for Grid Engine, ARCo, SGE Inspect ), by the way as I know Hedeby is still 1.0u3.

Cloud providers perfomance tests and monitoring

Alexey Bokov — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:47:10 +0000

Half of All Developers Plan Private Cloud Deployments

Alexey Bokov — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:06:11 +0000

If a recent Evans Data study is any indication, private cloud deployments could rise sharply over the next year.

Using SDM to managing OpenSolaris zones

Alexey Bokov — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:03:44 +0000

Sun Grid Engine’s top engineer Richard Hierlmeier wrote article ( and some bash scripts which implements it – btw why you not to put it them onto your cvs? ) about using SDM in compute cloud ( here’s EC2 as example, I suppose that GoGrid can be used also without too many changes ) – Using SDM Cloud Adapter to Manage Solaris Zones.