Bitnami Makes Deploying SugarCRM on AWS Easy
Bitnami (see previous CloudAve coverage), whose platform allows easy deployment of open source applications across multiple cloud providers, today partnered with SugarCRM (see previous CloudAve coverage) to make it easy to run SugarCRM Professional, Enterprise and Community editions on AWS using Bitnami Cloud Hosting. With this partnership, Bitnami Cloud Hosting becomes the preferred method of [...]
Should AWS Be The Definition Of Cloud Computing?
Recently, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances to meet the needs of enterprise customers they are trying to lure. After the revamp of their VPC offering, this is another surprise from Amazon aimed squarely at the enterprise customers worried about multi-tenancy. With Amazon EC2 dedicated instances, enterprise customers can get [...]
WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free
I’ve been wanting to get a write up done for WordPress on AWS, the fact that it is free for a year, since they’ve released the free-tier many months ago. Well I finally got around to it, however it isn’t a write up. I went ahead and put the work in to produce a video [...]
AWS, VPC And Impact On The Ecosystem
No, this is not yet another post about Amazon’s new VPC announcement. Christian has already done a great job from the technical angle. This is about the chatter that came out from Clouderati immediately after the announcement from Amazon. During Cloud Connect 2011, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels went extra mile to emphasize how ecosystem is [...]
1-2-3 easy as V-P-C
Warning: This is a long post. If you suffer from ADD (like I do) then maybe this one isn’t for you. Blink and you’ll miss it. No, not a shooting star, but the release of yet another celestial feature set delivered by the mercurial team at AWS. These days, it seems there is not a [...]
Git Rid of Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDKs with .NET + Git + AppHarbor Deployment Revolution
I’ve been wanting to do a quick write up on the state of cloud apps from my perspective. What’s my perspective? Well I’m keeping up with the SDKs from the big players; AWS and Windows Azure. I’m also working on several cloud applications and providing consulting for some people and companies when approached related to [...]
The Hollywood Culture
Debates are fun, especially when you are jousting with such fantastic and respected cloud dignitaries as Chris Hoff, Adrian Cockcroft and Simon Wardley. Come on, I mean who wouldn’t enjoy a good natured, well intended, yet fierce back and forth about the various clouds and their various philosophies ? Well, March 12 was a day [...]
AWS – A Wonka Surprise ?
Thursday, March 3, saw the simply brilliant folks at AWS shuffle another tantalizing step closer to persuading an Enterprise to move VMs to their burgeoning EC2 platform by making it as simple as taking candy from a baby. Say hello to the “EC2 VM Import Connector”. Immediately following the announcement, that broke, as usual, via an effortless tweet from AWS’ Jeff Barr, [...]
Open Source, my aaS ?
On February 23rd, Infoworld blogger and cloud expert David Linthicum posted an article that, until today, I had been studiously trying to prevent from playing over and over like the proverbial stuck record in my rather inquisitive mind. My inquisition, and subsequently my inability to let this escape my attention, was not necessarily raised the [...]
AWS CloudFormation: Poaching The Ecosystem?
Amazon Web Services (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced AWS CloudFormation, which lets developers and system admins use recipes to create and provision resources in Amazon cloud. This is conceptually similar to Opscode’s Chef Recipes which lets ops folks configure some aspect of the systems in their ecosystem. Clearly, AWS must have seen how Chef [...]
Will Amazon’s Video Streaming Service Hurt Netflix?
Amazon recently announced a video streaming service available for free to their Amazon Prime subscribers. From what we have heard in the media, Amazon will end up offering a competitive service to Netflix. We all know that Netflix has recently moved most of their infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. In this post, I will briefly [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Amazon Enters The PaaS World
As expected, Amazon has finally stepped into the PaaS world. I have long been arguing in this space that PaaS is the future of Cloud Services and many in the Clouderati and some pundits were waiting for Amazon to go up the stack to PaaS. Even in a recent post on Amazon’s Android App Store [...]
Deciphering Amazon’s Android App Store Strategy
Last week, Amazon unwrapped a marketplace for Android Applications pitching it as a credible alternative to Google’s own Android Marketplace. This move has generated both excitement and concerns from pundits. There are some who wonder about this move by Amazon and there are others who worry about how the fragmentation of marketplace will affect the [...]
Cloud Throw Down: Part 4 – Perspectives on PaaS
Alright, time for the battle o’ clouds to roll on. In this throw down I’m going to compare platforms from the infrastructure and platform perspective. Windows Azure takes a very distinctive, and unique, Platform as a Service (PaaS) model and Amazon Web Services takes a very Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. Each of these [...]
Amazon Feels Pressure And Beefs Up Their Support Services
Even though Amazon has a large lead over other public cloud providers, they still have to sweat out as they target the enterprise customers. Recently, Opsource and Rackspace, two other public cloud providers targeting the same customers started offering managed cloud services with the same cloud like pricing. Already, Rackspace has established their mark in [...]
