I've come to love Amazon's EC2 service and I'm looking for something similar that supports the ability to save a running Windows server image and start new instances from it. I contacted GoGrid (the feature is planned in future) and Mosso (no joy) Anyone know of any hosting/cloud providers that can dothis? ...
I read a lot about the possibilities of Amazons Cloud computing, like S3 or EC2 and I wondered if someone actually uses this for mission-critical applications. Do you host your company website in the cloud? Do you store files there? Do you run your build servers in the cloud? There are already some services like Scalr or WeoCeo that cou...
I'm evaluating Terracotta to help me scale up an application which is currently RAM-bounded. It is a collaborative filter and stores about 2 kilobytes of data per-user. I want to use Amazon's EC2, which means I'm limited to 14GB of RAM, which gives me an effective per-server upper-bound of around 7 million users. I need to be able to sca...
Is there a way to run an Amazon EC2 AMI image in Windows? I'd like to be able to do some testing and configuration locally. I'm looking for something like Virtual PC. ...
I'm using Amazon's tools to build a web app. I'm very happy with them, but I have a security concern. Right now, I'm using multiple EC2 instances, S3, SimpleDB and SQS. In order to authenticate requests to the different services, you include your Access Identifiers (login required). For example, to upload a file to S3 from an EC2 inst...
I'm looking for: documentation blogs books ready-to-use pre-configured slice images services wrappers libraries tutorials ...anything that would make it easier to start using EC2 to host a Rails application. ...
We're looking into developing a product that would use Amazon's cloud tools (EC2, SQS, etc), and I'm curious what tips/gotchas/pointers people that have used these technologies have. One tip/whatever per post, please. ...
I'm working to set up Panda on an Amazon EC2 instance. I set up my account and tools last night and had no problem using SSH to interact with my own personal instance, but right now I'm not being allowed permission into Panda's EC2 instance. Getting Started with Panda I'm getting the following error: @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIV...
Has anyone got much experience deploying applications to Amazons EC2? I am considering doing this in future and wonder about peoples experiences compared to shared hosting and dedicated server hosting are. ...
Amazon announced cloud hosting for Windows goes public beta today. EC2 Windows Pricing The pricing doesn't seem that cheap over colocation of your own server. Is this a revolutionary step towards the obvious future of hosting? Does anyone have any first hand experience using .net on an amazon virtual box? Cheapest pricing btw is 12...
Is it possible to have all the computing capacity of all the hardware nodes allocated to one instance (for eg. one basic linux installation)? How to manage the cloud? ...
I just watched the Windows Azure intro video and it left me feeling like it was a front end shell for hosted IIS instances. Can anyone who know more (possibily that was part of the beta) shed on why you would use this vs. EC2. it seemed easy enough but really didnt give specifics on how it works, why it works or why you would use this v...
We're running a lightweight web app on a single EC2 server instance, which is fine for our needs, but we're wondering about monitoring and restarting it if it goes down. We have a separate non-Amazon server we'd like to use to monitor the EC2 and start a fresh instance if necessary and shut down the old one. All our user data is on Elas...
I have a large amount of data I need to store, and be able to generate reports on - each one representing an event on a website (we're talking over 50 per second, so clearly older data will need to be aggregated). I'm evaluating approaches to implementing this, obviously it needs to be reliable, and should be as easy to scale as possibl...
We've been fighting with HAProxy for a few days now in Amazon EC2; the experience has so far been great, but we're stuck on squeezing more performance out of the software load balancer. We're not exactly Linux networking whizzes (we're a .NET shop, normally), but we've so far held our own, attempting to set proper ulimits, inspecting ker...
It appears from their marketing literature that their new Windows with SQL option on EC2 has the SQL licensing costs bundled into their instance charges, but I'd hate to make assumptions. Has anyone here that has actually used a SQL instance on EC2 confirm/deny that the SQL Licensing costs are bundled into the instance chanrges from Am...
I am looking at the pricing of various cloud computing platforms, particularly Amazon's EC2, and a lot of the quotes are based on a unit called an Instance-Hour. I am trying to get a handle on the exact definition of an instance-hour to better compare the costs of continuing to host a web-application versus putting it out on the cloud....
Hi, I'm considering using Amazon's EC2 with a windows instance & SQL. I've seen some criticism of the perf of the SQL instances here. I'm wondering if any SOers have and first hand experience and can comment on the performance. ...
Does anyone have experience deploying GWT apps to EC2? If I were to install tomcat or apache on a ec2 instance, could I have users connect directly to a url pointing there? Would that be cost effective, or would java hosting services be best? Is there any downside to hosting the edge HTTP server on a regular hosting service and have t...
Does anyone know how to auto-mount an Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume when starting a Windows 2003 instance in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)? ...