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?

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

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Cloud computing links – August 2010

Amazon Web Services links – October/November 2009