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Amazon Drops EC2 Prices. Can We Expect More Reductions?

Amazon Drops EC2 Prices. Can We Expect More Reductions?

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 2, 2010

Amazon today announced that they are dropping the on demand and reserved prices of High Memory Double Extra Large and High Memory Quadruple Extra Large instances from yesterday. Effective September 1, 2010, we’ve reduced the On-Demand and Reserved Instance prices on the m2.2xlarge (High-Memory Double Extra Large) and the m2.4xlarge (High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large) by up […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud computing, ec2, price, price reduction, Strategy

Rackspace Offers Windows Cloud Servers

Rackspace Offers Windows Cloud Servers

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 10, 2010

Today, Rackspace announced the release of Windows based Cloud Servers to compete with Amazon EC2 Windows instances and Windows Azure. According to Rackspace, the new service delivers a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications and supporting the high levels of traffic required for launching online gaming platforms or the next […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged analysis, aws, azure, cloud computing, cloud servers, ec2, iaas, microsoft, rackspace, windows | 1 Response

Cloud Pricing War Begins

Cloud Pricing War Begins

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 3, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Finally, the cloud pricing war has begun. I have been complaining about the AWS pricing here at Cloud Ave for some time. In my Sept, 2009 post, I argued that Amazon needs to price aggressively to capture more market share. However, I would like to to use this post to once again […]

Posted in Analysis, Strategy | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud computing, cloud economics, ec2, microsoft, price wars, windows azure | 3 Responses

CloudKick Broadens its Infrastructure Management Base

CloudKick Broadens its Infrastructure Management Base

By Ben Kepes on January 25, 2010

Cloud management company CloudKick, a Y Combinator startup, is launching its commercial product  and announcing they now support the Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2, Linode, GoGrid, Slicehost, RimuHosting, and VPS.NET. The CloudKick offering enables users to control cloud infrastructure from multiple different vendors, all from one dashboard which allows both monitoring and management of an infrastructure […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged amazon, cloudkick, ec2, gogrid, libcloud, linode, rackspace, rimuhosting, slicehost, vps.net

Amazon Spot Instances - A Neat Way To Rent Out Unused Resources

Amazon Spot Instances – A Neat Way To Rent Out Unused Resources

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 14, 2009

Yesterday, Joe Weinman, whose insights on cloud computing are respected by many in the Clouderati, wrote a thought provoking post on GigaOM about various ways in which cloud computing pricing models will evolve. One of the them was the Discretionary Processing and Auctions. Discretionary Processing and Auctions — Much computing must be done on demand. […]

Posted in Design | Tagged aws, cloud computing, ec2, spot instances

Malware starts using Amazon EC2 as a Command and Control structure

By Dan Morrill on December 10, 2009

This is one of those things you wait for, like the other shoe to drop, but with the movement away from the data center to the cloud, it is an expectation that malware would follow the migration. There is no reason to think that your cloud applications are any more secure than any of the […]

Posted in Security | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, botnet, command and control, ec2, hacking, information security, Security, Trojan, zeus | 1 Response

Cloud Is Not What You Think It Is

Cloud Is Not What You Think It Is

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 12, 2009

Yesterday at Defrag, during a panel on Foundational Infrastructure and Enabling Technology, some of the panelists were trying to stretch the concept of cloud to suit their agenda. I thought I will clear the air here on those concepts. It is time for us to accept the widely adopted definitions and take the discussions to […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged aws, cloud computing, definitions, ec2, myths, virtualization | 1 Response

Einstein Embraces EC2

Einstein Embraces EC2

By Ben Kepes on November 9, 2009

Well nearly… It’s nice being able to tell a story about cloud computing being used to power some really cool projects. While Youtube is cool and all, it doesn’t come close to the coolness of exploring the depths of the oceans or outer space. It’s in this second category that this post lies – apparently […]

Posted in General, Strategy | Tagged amazon, ec2, esa, gaia, tsa | 1 Response

Layer7 – Abstracting Cloud Gateways

By Ben Kepes on November 2, 2009

I recently spoke with Scott Morrison, VP Engineering at Layer 7 Technologies, a SOA and governance company that has been doing appliance based gateways for years looking at traffic, cryptography, authentication, authorization, etc, and setting rules and policy. Layer 7 is now moving what they do into the clouds. From their release; With Layer 7’s […]

Posted in Product reviews, Security, Strategy | Tagged amazon, ec2, firewall, layer7, Security, virtualization | 2 Responses

Amazon EC2 Shows Amazing Growth

Amazon EC2 Shows Amazing Growth

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 27, 2009

Amazon EC2, the public cloud service offered by Amazon, has been growing at an amazing rate. From their early days of catering to startups, they have grown to have diverse clients from individuals to enterprises. Guy Rosen, the cloud entrepreneur who tracks the state of the cloud, has done some research on the resource identifier […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged aws, cloud computing, ec2 | 3 Responses

AWS Adds An Extra Layer Of Security On Authentication

AWS Adds An Extra Layer Of Security On Authentication

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 2, 2009

Sometime back, I was lamenting about the lack of security in the authentication layer of Amazon Web Services. Especially, I found the ease with which one can gain control of AWS account by cracking just the user’s login credentials for AWS console very troubling.   Before the release of console, someone who steals the Amazon […]

Posted in Analysis, Security | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud computing, ec2, Security

StrataScale – Hosting for the Edge Cases

StrataScale – Hosting for the Edge Cases

By Ben Kepes on July 22, 2009

There’s quite a divide between traditional hosting in physical servers and the somewhat ethereal (actually completely ethereal) concept of cloud hosting. Into this breech walks StrataScale. StrataScale call themselves the first fully managed server hosting solution – that’s physical servers, not virtual ones. In an answer to many peoples concerns around virtualization and cloud storage, […]

Posted in General, Product reviews | Tagged cloud hosting, datacentre, ec2, hosting, ironscale, servers, stratascale, vps | 1 Response

New Features for Amazon EC2 – Now You Can Truly Scale Applications

New Features for Amazon EC2 – Now You Can Truly Scale Applications

By Guest Authors on May 18, 2009

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) allows customers build secure, fault-tolerant applications that can scale up and down with demand, at low cost. One of the core features for achieving this kind of efficiency and fault-tolerant is the ability to acquire and release computing resources in a matter of minutes according to demand. While […]

Posted in General | Tagged amazon, AMZN, ec2 | 4 Responses

Built-in Support for the Cloud Makes Ubuntu Something Special

By Paul Miller on April 21, 2009

Krishnan wrote about the next version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, back in March and said; Essentially, Ubuntu has decided to focus on developing features which will help propel Ubuntu Server edition to play a major role in the Cloud infrastructure ecosystem By incorporating code from Project EUCALYPTUS into this latest version of the Linux distribution, […]

Posted in Analysis, Enterprise, Strategy | Tagged aws, canonical, cloud computing, ec2, eucalyptus, open source, Podcast, simon wardley, ubuntu | 2 Responses

Amazon releases Elastic MapReduce web service

By Paul Miller on April 2, 2009

Today sees the release of Amazon’s latest web service; the Hadoop-powered Elastic MapReduce; Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce, you can instantly provision as much or as little capacity as you like to perform data-intensive tasks for applications such as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics research. Amazon […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged amazon, aws, ec2, Elastic MapReduce, hadoop, Jeff Barr, mapreduce

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