We’re Never Content - Amazon announces a forthcoming CDN layered on top of S3 with “edge locations on three continents” - presumably North America, Europe and Asia - “in order to deliver your content from the most appropriate location.” Presumably Amazon is planning to use this in-house for their digital media sales, or possibly [...]
Amazon’s much-awaited Elastic Block Store for EC2 is out this morning; I’m excited to give this a try. A couple downers from the announcement: The pricing is somewhat high - $0.10 per allocated GB per month plus $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests - and the reliability isn’t where I’d like it to be. [...]
So I returned from a little five-day weekend to sunny Lake Chelan and the Columbia River to an RSS reader bursting at the seams with new posts. By far the best post was one later deleted:
Amazon Elastic Block Store goes live! (Yeah, that link’s dead - like I said, it was later deleted.) [...]
Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008 - Amazon’s post-mortem on the 7/20 S3 outage. Excerpt: “We’ve now determined that message corruption was the cause of the server-to-server communication problems. More specifically, we found that there were a handful of messages on Sunday morning that had a single bit corrupted such that the message [...]
Eucalyptus - “EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces.” If VMware is perhaps working on [...]