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 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 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’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 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 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 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 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 [...]
Tweet I was just reading about CentriLogic’s new cloud hosting services. They store your data across data centers in Rochester NY, Buffalo NY, Toronto ON, and Mississauga, ON. With Amazon EC2 and cloudfront distributions you can deploy your data across United States, European, Hong Kong and Singapore, and Japan edge locations. Country-specific regulations governing privacy [...]
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Tweet I was just talking about using Amazon for backing up your data in the clouds. One feature that Amazon introduced recently was version control for Amazon S3 data. You can use Amazon S3 versioning to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your Amazon S3 bucket. This allows you to [...]
Tweet I’m increasing my usage of Amazon EBS volumes. I tend to use objects I’ve written in PHP or ColdFusion for writing data to Amazon S3. I haven’t historically used EBS volumes much, because data tends to be needed across multiple instances. I’m taking another look at them. I’m going to use in a couple [...]
Tweet I’m launching a new Amazon EC2 instance. Its running Windows + PHP + MySQL. Its a preset up instance AMI I have for harvesting data. Its setup with necessary harvest scripts with all my libraries setup just for pulling RSS, XML, and scraping HTML pages. I’m doing some research about how to grow my [...]
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Tweet Amazon Web Services finally added an S3 Bucket explorer to the Amazon Console. I was mentioning last week about how mature the offerings in the AWS console are getting, and how the the whole suite of Amazon Web Services is ready for use by Small Business. The Amazon S3 interface is pretty simple, but [...]
Tweet Email is still the number one tool for managing events and communicating with attendees, speakers, and exhibitors. Social network is definitely the future of the event communication, but until then email rules. Sending out call for papers, speaker, exhibitor, attendee invitations and other emails around a conference can require a well oiled email infrastructure [...]
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Tweet Hosting a web site for an event or conference can be costly. Traffic to the web site spikes around email campaigns, call for papers, registration opening, before and during the event. Hosting providers that can handle the volume of traffic around events and conferences can be expensive. The Amazon Cloud is an excellent place [...]
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Tweet I was reminded today that nothing is permanent in the cloud. I accidentally terminated my primary database instance running on Amazon EC2. 319 databases, 100 GB of data running on SQL Server 2008. I was removing 2 decommissioned server instances, I selected both of them and clicked terminate. About 60 seconds later I started [...]