In the recent Amazon AWS Newsletter, they asked the following: Some customers have asked us about ways to easily convert virtual machines from VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen Server, and Microsoft Hyper-V to Amazon EC2 instances – and vice versa. If this is something that you’re interested in, we would like to hear from you. Please […]
Here’s a couple tidbits I’ve gleaned that are useful. When you start an “instance-store” Amazon EC2 instance, you get a certain amount of ephemeral storage allocated and mounted automatically. The amount of space varies by instance size and is defined here. The storage location and format also varies by instance size and is defined here. […]
What is Microsoft Azure? Here’s a clear explanation of this new cloud computing product and how it compares to Amazon and Google.
http://code.google.com/p/scalr/ For those of us getting into amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2), this is a really cool idea. The idea is that your load grows and a new node is ready to handle additional capacity. Once load lessens, boxes are turned off. Integrating this with box stats, response times, monitoring per service makes sense. I […]
