elastic compute cloud
Amazon’s HPC cloud: supercomputing for the 99%
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The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is becoming increasingly popular for high-performance computing. It's now capable of running many of the applications that previously required building out a large HPC cluster or renting time from a supercomputing center. But as you might expect, Amazon EC2 can’t do everything a traditional...
Amazon Web Services outage once again shows reality behind "the cloud"
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Amazon's Elastic Block Store ("EBS") service, an underpinning component of Amazon's extremely popular Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2"), experienced a substantial service interruption this afternoon. Amazon EC2 has become such a ubiquitous feature in the cloud computing landscape that it's difficult to throw a rock without hitting a large company with...
Possible Amazon EC2-Related Issue Takes Down Reddit, Heroku and Other Sites
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(Photo: Reddit) Office drones and journalists hungering for a web-friendly scoop are out of luck right now: Reddit, the massive link-aggregator site responsible for the vast majority of content on sites like BuzzFeed, is down. @RedditStatus tweeted the following: “The site is down right now. It appears to be a...
A Lot Of Quora's $50 Million Is Going Straight To Amazon (AMZN)
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So Quora, the hot question-and-answer site, just raised $50 million—some of it in a matter of days—from eager investors. Where's the money going? Quora cofounder Adam D'Angelo has already answered the question—on Quora. The answer: Amazon. Amazon.com, besides its vast online store, also rents out computing power to startups...
Google tries to take the pain out of developing for App Engine
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Google woos programmers with the Developer Sandbox at its annual Google I/O conference. niallkennedy Google’s platform for building Web applications is getting a half-dozen or so updates today, bringing Google closer to its goal of taking the drudgery away from building applications and letting developers focus on their code....
Telefónica squares up to Amazon with Instant Servers global IaaS offering
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Telefónica, the giant Spanish telco, has just decided to take on Amazon around the world with Instant Servers, a public cloud service. Launched on Tuesday, the service’s virtual servers are optimized for mobile, enterprise and M2M applications. The infrastructure-as-a-service offering is the first product that Telefónica is selling to companies...
Google to Amazon: You’re not the only price chopper around
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Amazon isn’t the only cloud provider slicing storage prices. Google on Tuesday cut the price on Google Cloud Storage by up to 15 percent, in some cases. With this move, and the naming of five new front-end storage partners, Google appears to be making a serious play for the enterprise...
VMware realizes it doesn't rule the cloud, boosts support for Amazon
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VMware's latest virtualization management software supports the deployment of applications and virtual machines to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. That doesn't sound like a big deal—numerous vendors do the same, including Amazon itself—but for VMware, it represents a recognition that it can't control every aspect of its customers' data centers. VMware has...
Amazon, Google slash cloud storage prices more than 25 percent
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Rivals Amazon and Google both announced steep pricing cuts to their cloud storage services today. Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) prices are dropping 24 percent to 28 percent while the price of Google Cloud Storage has been cut more than 30 percent in the past week. This seems to be...
Pinterest finally drops invites in favor of open registration
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Popular social networking service Pinterest has finally ditched invitations and opened its doors to anyone who wants to sign up on the spot. Pinterest launched in 2010, but it didn’t start gaining traction until late last year thanks to its addictive nature. It eventually became the third-most popular social...
Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more
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An outage of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia has taken down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services. According to numerous Twitter and our own checks, all three services are unavailable as of Friday evening at 9:10 p.m. PT. Amazon’s service health dashboard indicates that there are power...
Amazon Cloud Hit By Real Clouds, Knocking Out Popular Sites Like Netflix, Instagram
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Severe storms that wiped out power to more than 2 million people across the eastern United States caused an outage of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in northern Virginia....
Data Centers: How Amazon Followed Google Into the World of Secret Servers
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Chris Pinkham was walking through a data center that would one day house Amazon's seminal cloud computing service -- the Elastic Compute Cloud -- when he came face-to-face with a cage of Google machines....
Amazon Cloud Hit by Real Clouds, Downing Netflix, Instagram, Other Sites
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Severe storms wiping out power to 2 million people in the eastern US cause an outage of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in northern Virginia....
Microsoft to Launch Amazon EC2 Rival. Again
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Microsoft is launching a new infrastructure cloud, whatever that is. Photo: theaucitron/Flickr The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon’s massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon...
Google Shaman Explains Mysteries Of ‘Compute Engine’
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The Google Compute Engine was only announced on Thursday. But at least one software developer has already added the logo to his latte. Image: Flickr/yukop Google started work on the Google Compute Engine over a year and a half ago, and it was all Peter Magnusson could do to keep...
Major Storm Hits Northern Virginia And Takes Instagram Down With It
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Instagram's cloud servers are based in Northern Virginia via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. It's the same service that's used by Netflix and Pinterest. Yesterday, a severe storm swept through the area and wiped out the servers, taking Instagram down with it. Today, Instagram is still struggling to get back up...
Outages prompt multi-cloud evaluations
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No cloud is perfect. And after some very public cloud outages, business customers are looking harder at divvying up their workloads among multiple clouds to mitigate risk. The latest glitch was a 19-minute Elastic Compute Cloud connectivity issue at Amazon’s U.S. East region early Thursday morning. (More on this here.) Earlier this month,...
Amazon speeds up EBS storage input-output -- again
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Some computing and storage tasks require faster data input/output than others. That’s why last August, Amazon Web Services, said customers could, for an additional fee, allocate up to 1000 IOPS per EBS storage volume. On Thursday, the company doubled the limit to 2,000 IOPS per EBS volume according to a...
Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates
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Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product....
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Command Line Reference
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Microsoft Windows Server License Mobility Pilot for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
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ArcGIS Beta Now Live
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ESRI's Bern Szukalski Tweeted today that ArcGIS and ArcGIS Explorer are now live. ArcGIS is a community-friendly online system for geographic information from ESRI, the GIS software company. The system was debuted at the 2010 ESRI Developer Summit in March. Sponsor Matt Ball of Spatial Sustain describes the interoperability and...
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