Posts Tagged ‘simple-storage-service’
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Part 2
August 24th, 2006 • Entrepreneurship + Startups, Technology
Tags: Amazon, EC2, Elastic-Compute-Cloud, S3, simple-storage-service
Okay, so the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service isn’t as great as I thought. It is still quite interesting for bursty computing tasks though. It appears that you have to manually request an instance of your application to run. This instance (the examples they talk about are instances of a full Linux OS) can then be logged into to do work (I think through an SSH session).
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
August 24th, 2006 • Entrepreneurship + Startups, Technology
Tags: Amazon, EC2, Elastic-Compute-Cloud, S3, simple-storage-service
Wow! Amazon released a beta service allowing for shared computing time this morning. The service, dubbed the Elastic Compute Cloud, works in conjunction with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). I’ve signed up for an account and I’ll provide more details once I get a chance. At first blush though, this is great for people wanting to build computing intensive startups without having to spend money for infrastructure on the front end.
Review: Online Backup Services
July 13th, 2006 • 2 comments Reviews + Recommendations, Technology
Tags: Amazon, Carbonite, Data-Deposit-Box, encryption, Foldershare, Iron-Mountain, Jungle-Disk, Mozy, online-backup, S3, security, simple-storage-service, Sony
You may not wish for it to happen but it will. Just like everything else mechanical, hard drives fail. If you’re toting around a laptop (like me) then your chances of damaging your hard drive are even higher.
Now, the biggest problem with this is that people (okay, people like me) are inherently lazy about backing up stuff. I devised a way to backup my important files automatically from my laptop onto a RAIDed network house server (if you don’t know what that means, don’t worry - it isn’t important for the stuff below).
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