Thank goodness for useful snapshots
Got this message from Amazon today: Hello. This is a notification that your volume vol-XXXXXXXX experienced a failure due to multiple failures of the underlying hardware components and was unable… Continue Reading
Browsing Tag: Amazon EC2
Amazon offers Reserved Instances
Amazon announced today the availability of Reserved Instances. Basically, you pay a one-time fee and get a significant discount on the hourly rate for that instance. Their rates are available… Continue Reading
AWS Security Whitepaper
Amazon just posted a security whitepaper which describes the security measures they have in place to protect their customers. It’s a short read (9 pages) and I strongly recommend it… Continue Reading
Performance increase with Amazon’s EBS (persistent storage)
At familylink.com, we have 4 MySQL database systems on EC2 that run that our facebook app, various other social network apps and various websites. I recently switched our disk storage… Continue Reading
New EC2 instance types
Amazon just announced two new High-CPU instance types for EC2. Here’s a quick comparison of what you can now get compared to the previous offering: 2x Small ($0.20/hr) RAM –… Continue Reading
How EC2 reduces database downtime
I recently had to alter(edit) a very large MySQL table on a production system to drop an unnecessary index. This particular table has over 15 million records in it and… Continue Reading
OpenSolaris on Amazon’s EC2, Yay!
For us UNIX fans, Sun Microsystems is working with Amazon to offer OpenSolaris on EC2. I’m not sure how I missed it, but they made the announcement last week. I… Continue Reading
Amazon Web services bandwidth savings
Amazon just announced a price change for bandwidth for outbound traffic from EC2 and S3. The result is up to 26% reduction in costs for all outbound traffic depending on… Continue Reading
Static IP addresses for EC2
It looks like the easter bunny came a few days late for Amazon. Yay! They finally offer static IP addresses for Amazon EC2. This is a huge step for anyone… Continue Reading
Amazon Web Services for Facebook Developers
Facebook has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services. I don’t quite see what the partnership involves other than some Facebook specific documentation and extra samples of facebook apps that… Continue Reading