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 [...]
Open Source And Cloud Computing: How Bitnami Helps Launch Open Source Apps On EC2 In 2 Minutes
When Amazon announced the release of Amazon Micro Instances, I was excited about how useful it will be for SMBs. Amazon Micro Instances + Open Source software solves one of the problems faced by SMBs. Some pundits outright dismissed the possibility of using Micro Instances for web hosting. Even though I agree that Micro Instances [...]
Amazon Tries to Lure Scientific Community into the Clouds
Image by via CrunchBase I am a strong believer of the utility of Cloud Computing in scientific research. Computing resources over clouds, along with its inherent advantages, are a boon to the cash starved scientific community. I have talked about this again and again. I am not alone in this and there are many others who believe in the [...]
