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Architecting for the Cloud: Best practices
Amazon has published another “Best practices” document. This one covers the almost the entire collection of services. Its biased towards AWS (obviously), but its still one of the best description...
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Versioning data in S3 on AWS
One of the problem with Amazon’s S3 was the inability to take a “snapshot” of the state of S3 at any given moment. This is one of the most important DR (disaster recovery) steps of any major upgrade...
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James Hamilton: Data center infrastructure innovation
Summary from James’ keynote talk at Velocity 2010 Pace of Innovation – Datacenter pace of innovation is increasing. The high focus on infrastructure innovation is driving down the cost, increasing...
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Building your first cloud application on AWS
Building your first web application on AWS is like shopping for a car at pepboys, part by part. While manuals to build one might be on aisle 5, the experience of having built one already is harder to...
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AWS cloudfront grows up… a little. Now allows Custom origins.
Cloudfront has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Here is what Jeff had to say when he announced that its out of “beta”…. First, we’ve removed the beta tag from CloudFront and it is now in...
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Cloud economics: Not really black and white..
While some of the interest in moving towards public cloud is based on sound economics, there is a small segment of this movement purely due to the “herd mentality”. The slide on the right is from a...
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How to setup Amazon Cloudfront ( learning with experimentation )
I have some experience with Akamai’s WAA (Web applications archive) service, which I’ve been using in my professional capacity for a few years now. And I’ve have been curious about how cloudfront...
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The unbiased private vs AWS ROI worksheet
One of the my problems with most cloud ROI worksheets is that they are heavily weighted for use-cases where resource usage is very bursty. But what if your resource requirements aren’t bursty ? And...
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AWS Cloudwatch is now really open for business
In a surprise move Amazon today released a bunch of new features to its cloudwatch service, some of which, till now, were provided by third party service providers. Basic Monitoring of Amazon EC2...
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Amazon Route 53 : Programmable DNS is finally here
Managing DNS has been considered as an art by many. If you manage your own DNS records, and run your own external DNS servers, I’m sure you have some stories to share. Unfortunately unlike most other...
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