Comments on: Scalr project and AWS http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2008/06/12/scalr-project-and-aws/ Real Web Admins. Real World Experience. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:28:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2008/06/12/scalr-project-and-aws/comment-page-1/#comment-9 James Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:39:48 +0000 http://webadminblog.com/?p=8#comment-9 Ok, since this is interesting to us all, I am going to put together a preso for OWASP or some venue to talk about our use of AWS/S3/ec2. Josh, you have to stop all this hippy green data center talk :) In fact I am signing our servers up to run using only coal created electricity. Ok, since this is interesting to us all, I am going to put together a preso for OWASP or some venue to talk about our use of AWS/S3/ec2.

Josh, you have to stop all this hippy green data center talk :) In fact I am signing our servers up to run using only coal created electricity.

]]> By: Josh http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2008/06/12/scalr-project-and-aws/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Josh Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:04:28 +0000 http://webadminblog.com/?p=8#comment-8 I agree that the Elastic Compute Cloud is a very cool idea. The other benefit to ec2 not mentioned by James is that it is about as "green" as you can get with server farms. By using server virtualization technology, it allows us to consume resources on an "as needed" basis. Why keep ten servers running in a datacenter all day long when you can dynamically allocate those servers only when the load demands it? James, do you have any stats on cost vs performance vs resource consumption for ec2 technology? Anyway, James' post got me curious about this technology and some google searching led me to the "Green Data Center Blog" at http://www.greenm3.com/ with some very interesting information. I agree that the Elastic Compute Cloud is a very cool idea. The other benefit to ec2 not mentioned by James is that it is about as “green” as you can get with server farms. By using server virtualization technology, it allows us to consume resources on an “as needed” basis. Why keep ten servers running in a datacenter all day long when you can dynamically allocate those servers only when the load demands it? James, do you have any stats on cost vs performance vs resource consumption for ec2 technology? Anyway, James’ post got me curious about this technology and some google searching led me to the “Green Data Center Blog” at http://www.greenm3.com/ with some very interesting information.

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