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 Cloud Architectures White Paper (PDF) (July 16, 2008)
In this white paper, AWS Technical Evangelist Jinesh Varia outlines the benefits of building architectures in the cloud, documents a Hadoop-run application (GrepTheWeb) with architecture diagrams, and discovers best practices for using Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, and SimpleDB. View the two-part HTML version: Cloud Architectures and AWS Best Practices.
Using Amazon SQS to Scale EC2 Applications (July 1, 2008)
The Amazon SQS team have released several new resources to showcase the value of using their message queuing service in the cloud with Amazon EC2-powered applications. This white paper outlines high-level benefits of incorporating asynchronous message queuing with Amazon EC2; a new developer article focuses on implementing auto-scaling with Amazon SQS; and a sample application to get you started.
JBoss on Amazon EC2 (June 17, 2008)
Red Hat has announced their second offering on Amazon EC2 - 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 frameworks to build innovative and scalable Java applications. Learn more.
High-CPU Instances Now Available (May 29, 2008)
A new family of Amazon EC2 instances types is now available: the High-CPU family. These instances have proportionally more CPU resources than RAM (compared to our Standard Instances) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications such as rendering, search indexing, and computational analysis. Since this was a popular feature request among EC2 developers, we are excited to offer these new instances to complement our existing instances sizes. Read more about the Amazon EC2 Instance Types.
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| In the News | Heavy Hosting on EC2 (July 18, 2008)
Mike Brittain blogs about the architectural details of using Amazon EC2 as Heavy.com's primary hosting platform.
NASDAQ's Use of Amazon S3 (July 18, 2008)
This case study details how NASDAQs Market Replay was built using Amazon S3 and Adobe Flex and AIR. With many gigabytes generated daily, historical market data is securely stored and quickly delivered using Amazon S3. Written by InfoQ.
The Next Step in Geospatial Cloud Computing (July 17, 2008)
Safe Software and WeoGeo are partnering to bring spatial ETL (extract, transform and load) technology to the cloud. Also listen to the podcast.
Top 10 Enterprises in the Cloud (July 14, 2008)
John Willis blogs about ten major enterprises that are using cloud services, 7 out of 10 on the list are using AWS.
Forrester: Cloud Maturity is Accelerating (July 10, 2008)
Forrester analyst, James Staten looks at the latest activity in cloud computing, including announcements from RightScale, GigaSpaces, Elastra, Hyperic, RPath, and more.
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