Hadoop as a service. Basically a web based GUI around Hadoop – you could roll this yourself on EC2 but for a small markup on regular EC2 prices you get to avoid the extra work setting everything up. Data processing scripts can be written in Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, R, or C++ and are [...]
TechFlash report a good news of Amazon opening up its Flexible Payment Service to everyone.
Soocial Web application: Nginx running behind an Elastic IP, proxying the request to an HAProxy on every “webapp” instance, each of which has its own memcache server (they don’t need to explicitly expire the cache). The reason they use Nginx is to supply SSL support, if HAproxy would do SSL they probably wouldn’t be using [...]
Amazon have announced their new CDN – CloudFront.
As with all other AWS, there are no minimum usage commitments, no monthly fees and the setup is plain and straight forward. Here are the steps;
Sign up for CloudFront.
Put your most frequently accessed static content into an Amazon S3 bucket and mark it as publicly readable.
Create a new [...]
AWS Quick Reference cards available in PDF form — the cards summarize the most important data types, function calls, and command line tools for each service.
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Everybody is talking about Amazon’s announcement of their CDN Service which will be rolled out around the end of this year.
Patrick Altman have started a new app over on github called django-aws. It’s a small re-distributable django app providing some lightweight integration with Amazon Web Services.
We’re all for Amazon AWS but this one — Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty — is a real-funny read. I enjoyed it thoroughly.