Amazon EC2 and S3

Christopher Barnatt is the author of explainingcomputers.com and Associate Professor of Computing and Organizations in Nottingham University Business School. His series explaining computers, Web 2.0, and Cloud Computing allow both novice learners and experts the opportunity to add information to their own knowledge base. Barnatt’s style of delivering his messages is unpretentious, completely thorough, and very approachable. What Is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing according to Christopher... Read Full Story

Just when you thought it was safe to get into the storage cloud, AWS goes on the fritz. The AWS Service Health Dashboard says it all: 9:05 AM PDT We are currently experiencing elevated error rates with S3. We are investigating. 9:26 AM PDT We’re investigating an issue affecting requests. We’ll continue to post updates here. 9:48 AM PDT Just wanted to provide an update that we are currently pursuing several paths of corrective action. 10:12 AM PDT We are continuing to pursue corrective... Read Full Story

Well AWS (Amazon Web Services) with a reported 330,000 developers now has significant new competition from the just announced Google Application Engine. Google's new cloud computing service went into limited beta on Monday and was opened to the first 10,000 users to sign up based on the post in the Google App Engine blog. It appears those 10,000 slots have already been taken since when I tried to sign up I received a message saying I would be added to the waiting list. Google's App Engine... Read Full Story

JBoss on Amazon EC2 Red Hat has announced their second offering on Amazon EC2: the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Now available on EC2's flexible, pay-as-you-go computing environment, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform provides developers with the most popular clustered Java EE application server and next-generation application framework on which to build innovative and scalable Java applications. Learn more about JBoss on Amazon EC2 . Charge for Regional and Elastic IP Data... Read Full Story

I’ve updated my “Introduction to AWS for Ruby Developers” article on the Amazon Web Service Developer Connection site. The updated code uses Rails 2.1, the RightScale AWS Ruby gem and the Paperclip plugin for uploads to Amazon S3. Other posts you may enjoyPersistent storage coming to Amazon EC2Google App Engine ThoughtsUsing Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, Lucene, and Ruby for Web Spidering Share this post Read Full Story