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Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Brajeshwar — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:24:49 +0000

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 loaded in to S3 before firing off the job.

Check out Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

Amazon opens up its Flexible Payments Service

Atif — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:27:17 +0000

TechFlash report a good news of Amazon opening up its Flexible Payment Service to everyone.Amazon charges fees for use of Flexible Payments Service. As part of today’s rollout, however, Amazon is offering developers who sign up for Flexible Payments by March 15 — and launch their application by June 1 — free payment processing for the first 90 days, until their transaction volume reaches $500,000.

100% on Amazon Web Services: Soocial.com

Brajeshwar — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:04:44 +0000

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 Nginx.

Via AWS Blog.

Amazon CloudFront

Brajeshwar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:39:16 +0000

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 CloudFront Distribution using a single REST-style POST call. Capture the domain name returned by the call.
Generate fresh URLs for your content using the domain name from step 3 and hand them out. By using our CNAME support you can even make the content appear as if it is coming from your own domain. You can associate up to 10 CNAMEs with each distribution.

CloudFront will take care of the rest. Requests originating anywhere in the world will be routed to one of 14 edge locations (8 in the United States, 4 in Europe, and 2 in Asia). If the content isn’t already present at a particular edge location it will be fetched from S3 and cached at the edge.

AWS Quick Reference cards

Brajeshwar — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:47:30 +0000

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.

Download the Printable AWS Quick Reference cards;

Amazon CDN

Brajeshwar — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:49:04 +0000

Everybody is talking about Amazon’s announcement of their CDN Service which will be rolled out around the end of this year.

Django-AWS

Brajeshwar — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:55:46 +0000

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.

A Cloud Is Easier To Draw On A Whiteboard Than A Grid

Brajeshwar — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:56:51 +0000

We’re all for Amazon AWS but this one — Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty — is a real-funny read. I enjoyed it thoroughly.