Amazon EC2 and S3

Some cool cloud computing for businesses images: Brandon Kutcha Developing Origami Animation Image by IntelFreePress John McNeil Studio co-director Brandon Kuchta helped turn the origami designs into moving imagery employing Amazon’s EC2, or Elastic Compute Cloud. The McNeil team needed to render 9,000 hours of digital artwork. If they had to use only a single in-property computer, it would’ve taken a year and but they had a week to do the rendering phase of this particular project. Using...Read Full Story

Expanding the Cloud – Introducing AWS Marketplace By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (6) Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace, an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud. You can use AWS Marketplace’s 1-Click deployment to quickly launch pre-configured software on your own Amazon EC2 instances and pay only for what you use, by the hour or month. AWS...Read Full Story

Create and Attach AWS EBS Volume to AWS EC2.Read Full Story

If you parse Amazon’s first quarter earnings, you could be forgiven for thinking that Amazon Web Services is now a $2 billion-a-year business. That’s because Amazon’s revenue from the “other” category for the quarter ending March 31, 2012 was $500 million, up from $311 million for the year-ago period. If you assume “other” is AWS only, that’s a $2 billion-a-year run rate for 2012. Now, before we go crazy, the “other” category includes, as an Amazon spokeswoman put it “non-retail activities...Read Full Story

On paper it looks like one of those strategic agreements that large companies sign with small startups. But if you look close enough, you will find that by forging a partnership with information as a service (IaaS) provider, Eucalyptus Systems, Amazon.com’s web services division is making a masterful move to dominate the cloud market. As part of the agreement, Amazon will allow Eucalyptus to use Amazon’s API to connect Amazon cloud services with the private clouds set up by large companies...Read Full Story