As reported around the web, it looks like several people have noticed performance issues with Amazons EC2 cloud computing service. While this was to be expected, some people are surprised nonetheless. For those that are surprised: please read “the truth about overselling“. It’s about web hosting, but much of the contents are true for cloud [...]
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Guy Rosen did an interesting analysis of the number of virtual machines started in Amazon’s cloud. His findings were surprising, at least to me: according to his stats, nearly 50.000 EC2 instances are started daily. But it all depends on the way you look at it; it’s less than one new VM per second. And [...] A short review of two utilities for making backups to Amazon’s S3 cloud storage, Jungle Disk and CloudBerry Online Backup. It turns out there are some surprising differences between the two products. [...] George Crump just blogged about the reliability of cloud storage; as he points out, anything you store “in the cloud” will go down or be unreachable at one time or another. I personally think most companies storing data with cloud storage providers such as Amazon’s S3 or Rackspace’s Cloud Files realize this might happen, and [...] CloudBerry, known mostly for their S3 explorer for easily browsing files stored on Amazon’s S3 cloud storage, is making a beta version of their new backup utility available for testing. Amazon has finally shared some details about the “Export” side of their AWS Import/Export feature. This means that you can now send a storage device to Amazon’s Seattle mailroom, and they’ll ship it back to you with data of your choosing. In other words, it works the same way as their Import service. And, for [...] | You can receive the latest news via: | ||||
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