5 Key Essentials of Cloud Workloads Migration
The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management. It seems that cloud adoption has reached the phase where advanced cloud users are creating their own hybrid solutions or migrating between clouds [...]
Disaster Recovery for Amazon EC2 in a Single Click
In my journey through the cloud I often come across great new initiatives. The interesting fact is that although the cloud is a pure revolution terms such as SLA, TCO and ROI remain valid, new methodologies and techniques are presented to support them in the cloud. I recently met Uri Wolloch, the founder of N2W [...]
Using Elastic Transcoder in Amazon Web Services
If you ever wanted a painless way of transcoding video to some 120 different devices, then the new Elastic Transcoder service from Amazon Web Services is the service you are looking for. This is probably the easiest service to use of all the Amazon Web Services out there. All you have to do is record [...]
Traditional IT Shops Starting to Evangelize Cloud, and End to the FUD In Sight?
I was interested to read some coverage of the recent event that was run by Amazon Web Services in Sydney, Australia to celebrate the launch of two Sydney availability zones for the company. As an aside its interesting to look at the list of services that AWS has chosen to go to market with. It [...]
How to Synch S3 Buckets in AWS and design for failover
News of Friday’s problems with the Virginia Data Centers power system taking down sites like Netflix and Pinterestshows that sometimes not programming for fail over or data center failure is a pretty foolish thing to do. Especially with costs somewhat reasonable per gigabyte in Amazon’s S3 system. Anyone who does not program for fail over [...]
Amazon Outage: Is it a Story of a Conspiracy? – Chapter 2
In April 2011, when Amazon’s cloud s east region failed. I posted the first chapter of the Amazon Cloud Outage Conspiracy – it was already very clear that the cloud will fail again and here it is… Chapter 2 Let’s first try to understand Amazon’s explanation for this outage. At approximately 8:44PM PDT, there was [...]
What is Amazon’s Secret for Success and Why is EC2 a Runaway Train?
We can all see it Amazon’s continued growth. The ‘Other’ line in their revenue reports is now the #1 area of growth for Amazon, even above consumer electronics. Their latest 10-Qreported 87% year-over-year growth, well over their consumer electronics business. Per predictions from myself, UBS, and others, AWS is staying on-track for 100% year-over-year growth, revenues in the [...]
AWS meets Kindle Fire
On Sept 28th, Amazon announced the new Kindle Fire tablet. This post digs into the two key cloud integratio ns that Amazon brings with Fire. Amazon Silk, The Cloud Accelerated Browser The browser deploys a split-architecture where all of the browser subsystems are present on the Kindle Fire as well as on the Amazon’s cloud [...]
AWS Outage & Customer Readiness
Reddit, Foursquare, EngineYard and Quora were among the many sites that went down recently due to a rather prolonged outage of Amazon’s cloud services. On Thursday April 21, When Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) went offline, it took many of its Web and database servers depending on that storage down. With Amazon working aggressively to [...]
Google Had an Outage: Let's Not Blame Cloud Computing This Time
Every time Google has an outage the press immediately jumps on the idea that somehow cloud computing itself is to blame. This is a wrongheaded viewpoint, because it is not simply a cloud issue, it is a total systems issue, much like anything else that has to do with any computing, outages happen anywhere in [...]
Using the Cloud to Design Your Startup Computing Infrastructure
Now that the wireframe is done for the startup, we are looking at the backend architecture for what we want to accomplish. The idea of using the cloud to cut down on costs is nothing new, and my new startup will be heavily leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to keep [...]
Big Gamble, Big Loss: the Fisher Plaza Datacenter Fire
Image via Wikipedia Disaster recovery, it is one of those IT 101 issues, there is no viable good reason to not have a hot/cold spare site in the day and age of cloud computing, data centers stitched across the planet, and while it is not trivial, the ability to synch all those systems into a [...]
