Tweet I finally got my Google Storage for Developers email invite the other day. They promised attendees of Google I/O would get them quicker, it took 3 months. I clicked on the link in my email and requested my keys and logged into the Google Storage Manager. It has a pretty basic interface for managing [...]
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Tweet I’m spending time going through RedHat’s Deltacloud set of cloud APIs. They recently recently moved the project to the Apache Incubator and submitted it to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) . With the Deltacloud API you can start an instance on an internal cloud, then with the same code start another on Amazon [...]
Tweet I am needing more programmatic control over my Amazon EC2 environment. I am rebuilding all server instances on my Amazon Web Services network. I needed to reconfigure using EBS Volumes for file and data storage, and upgrade the operating systems and some applications while I’m at it. So I’m creating all new AMI as [...]
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Tweet I am still processing a great post at High Scalability called, Scaling an AWS infrastructure – Tools and Patterns. They cover several tools you can use to take advantage of Amazon’s Web Service and suggest an architectural model you should adopt for a scalable infrastructure in the cloud. They suggest the following tools for [...]
Tweet I was just refining a wiki page of various building blocks I use at Amazon Web Services. I noticed it would make a great Internet Service Provider (ISP) package for someone who wanted to start an ISP, or even used as model for an existing ISP looking to migrate to cloud computing. These are [...]
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Tweet Once again I’m pushing the limits of what I”m allowed within an Amazon Web Services account. I need more server instances and more reserved IP addresses. So I have to go to the form(s) Amazon provides to: Request to Increase Amazon EC2 Instance Limit Request to Increase Elastic IP Address Limit They take about [...]
Tweet This is a second post in a series about where cloud computing is headed. In addition to regional cloud computing centers, the need for raw cloud storage is growing. A handful of providers are leading the charge in cloud compute Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): Amazon Web Services Rackspace Cloud These two are [...]
Tweet I am spending a lot of time lately writing and thinking about the future of cloud computing. The need for raw cloud compute power is growing as a utility for every day business. A handful of providers are leading the charge in cloud compute Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): Amazon Web Services Rackspace Cloud [...]
Tweet I was just reading Insights from the AWS Cloud Computing for the Enterprise Event in Los Angeles on the Morph blog. They offer some good morsels of cloud wisdom and have a good presentation by Dr. Werner Vogels. What stuck with me were the bullet points about designing infrastructure when using cloud based Infrastructure [...]
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Tweet I’m spending a lot of time lately looking at more efficient and secure ways of delivery web applications and content globally. I am refining my DNS strategy using Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), and refining my file and content management policies now that Amazon Web Services is offering Bucket Policies. Geographic Specific Sub-Domains (CNAME) [...]
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Tweet Last year I moved web site, database and email services for the SAP SAPPHIRE event to the Amazon Cloud. We needed to scale our infrastructure dramatically to support the event for about 4 months out of the year. This was our second year running the conference in the Amazon Cloud and we were able [...]
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Tweet Amazon Web Services released support for Bucket Policies within Amazon S3 Cloud Storage today. Bucket policies provide access control management for Amazon S3 buckets and for the objects in them using a single unified mechanism. The policies are expressed using whats called Access Policy Language, that enables centralized management of permissions. Access Control Lists [...]
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Tweet I am playing with different ways of monetizing my skills and knowledge. I wrote a white paper on how to setup your core email infrastructure in the Amazon cloud. I haven’t spent a lot of time polishing, because I am not a writer. I have spent hundreds of hours polishing the approach. I am [...]
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Tweet Dropbox just launched a new application programming interface (API) for their popular cloud storage platform. The RESTful API allows you to exchange, distribute or access files on a user’s desktop. The API offers the following features: Simple HTTP+JSON method of accessing a user’s information in a user approved sandbox on the user’s desktop. List, [...]
Tweet Amazon published today that Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SSL encrypted connections. You can now generate an SSL certificate for each database instance. Here are a few of the details about Relational Database Service (RDS) SSL connections: SSL encrypts the data transferred “over the wire” between your DB Instance and your application. It [...]
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Tweet I was mapping some subdomains to various Amazon S3 buckets today. I decided to use the new Amazon S3 interface available in the Amazon Console, instead of S3Fox for a change. I was setting the permissions for a new bucket and I noticed the logging feature for each bucket. For some reason this has [...]
Tweet Amazon S3 cloud storage has changed the way I manage files on my networks. I am centralizing all file storage across my web site and applications to Amazon S3. All heavy file types: .jpg .gif .png .tif .doc / .docx .xls / .xlsx .fla .pdf .vcs .zip Should all be stored in central buckets [...]
Tweet When setting up your Amazon Load Balancer you need to configure ports and protocols that the load balancer will route traffic for. Traffic can be routed from any load balancer port to any port on your Amazon EC2 instances. By default, the load balancer is configured with a standard web server on port 80. [...]
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Tweet I was reviewing a cloud backup product, CloudBerry Backup yesterday. Each time I try a new cloud storage product I can’t help think how we need interroperability between all the cloud storage providers. I would like to see a single client that could work with different cloud storage providers. Andy from Cloudberry points out [...]
Tweet I am always trying to keep an eye on various cloud storage solutions. A company called Cloudberry has been offering an Amazon S3 storage client called CloudBerry Explorer for a while. Now they are targeting the data backup and restore marketing with their CloudBerry Backup. Current features include: Maintain the same data structure on [...]