Hi Am looking for a cost effective tool for managing an web app on Ec2. Rightscale seems to the big dog and charges for it. Scalr looks like a more cost effective solution but hard to find out any real customer experiences.. The key aspects I'm looking for is a load balancer (http and https) and a way to automatically bring online add...
Our company is thinking about switching IT hosting strategy for the long run. We have been playing with some EC2 instances and we are interested in looking at a possible switch over cloud computing. Our only option is not amazon but is definitely one of the famous. I know that there are different instance options in terms of pricing...
Does Amazon EC2 support ASP.net MVC? ...
I was reading through this article: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/12/running-everything-on-aws-soocialcom.html And I was wondering if this was good or bad. I am a fan of AWS myself, but I what to hear what the crowd thinks... ...
Curious as to 99.95% uptime REALLY means; Is it really going to go down 7 minutes a month? Please post your longest/average uptimes on EC2, thanks. ...
What types of Technologies does Amazon.com use Internally? Databases? Programing languages? Web technology? What technology is used to build ec2? s3? simpleDB? ...
Say a client is happy with the work you've done creating a script to accomplish a task that gathers some information and outputs a hefty database file. Then, they're interested in having the task run periodically (approximately monthly) without human intervention. The client is not interested in running the task locally, so you're forced...
Is there a way to distinguish between sets of EC2 instances? My use case is that I have a bunch of web tier machines and a bunch of search tier machines; currently the only way to track what each instance is doing is in a roll-your-own asset directory, like LDAP or a database. Ideally, I'd like to be able to determine the role of a mac...
I used to use discountasp.net and I can use Visual Studio 2008 to "publish" the website directly to the web host. I am using a dedicated server now (well, to be exact, Amazon EC2 Windows), how should I setup the web server so I can deploy the website directly from VS 2008? I tried to setup a FTP server but couldn't get it working. Thank...
What are the valid instanceState's for the AmazonEC2 API? It doesn't seem to be defined in the current API doc. Google doesn't turn up much. So far I know about: 0: pending 16: running 32: shutting-down 48: terminated but I'm pretty sure I've seen an error state before. Thanks! ...
I have an Amazon EC2 instance using the Amazon-supplied Fedora 8 64-bit AMI, which I would like to upgrade to Fedora 10. I tried doing this by running "yum update" to upgrade the kernel and all packages. This seemed to work fine and I see that I now have the fc10 kernel installed, and all of my installed packages have also been updated...
Hi, I would like to ask how licnesing works on multiple instances? Suppose that I have an application that I bought earlier, and I have a lincese key to run it. I install this application to the basic AMI, then i enter the license key, and I boundle this instance to a new AMI. I need 5 instances from this AMI. If I run 5 instances from ...
Amazon measures their CPU allotment in terms of virtual cores and EC2 Compute Units. EC2 Compute Units are defined as: The amount of CPU that is allocated to a particular instance is expressed in terms of these EC2 Compute Units. We use several benchmarks and tests to manage the consistency and predictability of the performance from ...
Setting up a Windows based web application on Amazon's cloud has definitely been a learning experience. Lots of unexpected hoops to jump through, especially to get around the ephemeral local drives limitations. I was hoping to tap into the collective wisdom of those who have walked this road ahead of me and get some insight into best p...
The web service that I want to run on AWS has to store and retrieve user data, present it to the user via a website, and needs to be able to parse the sitemaps of a few thousand sites every 10 min or so. Which components of AWS, such as S3, EC2, and CloudFront do I need to use. A short synopsis about the purpose of each component would b...
The use will be to serve dynamic content from data on S3. You can make up any definition of "normal" you think is normal. What about small, medium, and large instances? Ok. People want some data to work with, so here: The webservice is about 100kb at start, and uses AJAX, so it doesnt have to reload the whole page much, if at all. Whe...
Say, you have a Rails (or actually any other kind) application running on Amazon EC2, and whenever you perform some maintenance, which might include shutting down or re-creating your instances, you might want S3 to display your "maintenance mode" page instead of your app. So, basically, that might mean: Uploading text saying when you'...
I'm in the process of selecting an AMI for my website on the Amazon EC2 network. It seems like the Ubuntu instances come in either 32 or 64 bit flavors. Presumably the 64 bit systems give you more memory address space, which is good. However, I'm wondering if it is a problem finding pre-compiled binaries. Am I better off sticking wit...
I have large data files stored in S3 that I need to analyze. Each batch consists of ~50 files, each of which can be analyzed independently. I'd like to setup parallel downloads of the S3 data into the EC2 instance, and setup triggers that start the analysis process on each file that downloads. Are there any libraries that handle an as...
I've created a custom Amazon AMI (Fedora) runs a few scripts and then shuts down. The problem with AMI's is that if my code changes there has to be a way for the AMI instance to get the latest scripts before it executes them. I wrote a shell script & put it in /etc/init.d/nt_startup To keep the code up to date, I execute a "git pull...