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Amazon EC2 EBS Instances and Ephemeral Storage
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...
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Amazon Web Services – Convert To/From VMs?
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...
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Velocity 2010 – Day 3 Keynotes
Ohhh my aching head. Apparently this is a commonly held problem, as the keynote hall is much more sparsely attended at 8:30 AM today than it was yesterday. Some great fun last night, we hung with the...
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Cloud Security: a chicken in every pot and a DMZ for every service
There are a couple military concepts that have bled into technology and in particular into IT security, a DMZ being one of them. A Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a concept where there is established...
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Our First Cloud Product Released!
Hey all, I just wanted to take a moment to share with you that our first cloud-based product just went live! LabVIEW Web UI Builder is National Instruments’ first SaaS application. It’s actually free...
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Amazon CloudFormation: Model Driven Automation For The Cloud
You may have heard about Amazon’s newest offering they announced today, CloudFormation. It’s the new hotness, but I see a lot of confusion in the Twitterverse about what it is and how it fits into the...
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Why Amazon Reserve Instances Torment Me
We’ve been using over 100 Amazon EC2 instances for a year now, but I’ve just now made my first reserve instance purchase. For the untutored, reserve instances are where you pay a yearly upfront per...
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Our Cloud Products And How We Did It
Hey, I’m not a sales guy, and none of us spend a lot of time on this blog pimping our company’s products, but we’re pretty proud of our work on them and I figured I’d toss them out there as use cases...
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The Real Lessons To Learn From The Amazon EC2 Outage
As I write this, our ops team is working furiously to bring up systems outside Amazon’s US East region to recover from the widespread outage they are having this morning. Naturally the Twitterverse,...
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Velocity 2012 Day Two
After John Allspaw and Steve Souders caper about in fake muscles, we get started with the keynotes. Building for a Billion Users (Facebook) Jay Parikh, Facebook, spoke about building for a billion...
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ReInvent 2013- Scaling on AWS for the First 10 Million Users
This was the first talk by @simon_elisha I went to at ReInvent, and was a packed room. It was targeted towards developers going from inception of an app to growing it to 10 million users. Following are...
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ReInvent 2013: Day 2 Keynote
I didn’t cover the day 1 keynote, but fortunately it can be found here. The day 2 keynote was a lot more technical and interesting though. Here are my notes from it: First, we began by talking about...
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ReInvent – Fireside Chat: Part 1
One of the interesting sessions at ReInvent was a fireside chat with Werner Vogels., where CEO’s or CTO’s of different companies/startups who use AWS talked about their applications/platforms and what...
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Getting Started On AWS – Securely
So you’ve decided to start playing around with Amazon Web Services and are worried about doing so securely. Here’s the basics to do when you set up to ensure you’re on sound footing. In fact, I’m...
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Amazon Cuts Prices Too
Well, if nothing else I’m happy to have Google Cloud around to provide some competition to push Amazon Web Services. Immediately after Google announced dramatic price drops, Amazon has responded doing...
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AWS Dying! Rackspace Pulls Out Of Cloud! News At 11!
Boy, it’s been quite a week for the cloud-schadenfreude crowd. If you listen to the various news outlets, apparently Rackspace has given up on cloud and Amazon is in free-fall. Here’s some...
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AWS re:Invent Keynote Day 1 Takeaways
Sadly I couldn’t attend this year, but heck that’s what the Internet is for. Here’s the interesting bits from the AWS re:Invent Day 1 keynote (livestreamed here). Loads of interesting stuff. AWS is...
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AWS re:Invent Keynote Day 2 Takeaways
TL;DR – performance improvements and two huge announcements, Docker-based EC2 Container Service and cloud-CEP-like AWS Lambda. I was in a meeting for the first 45 minutes but I hear I didn’t miss much....
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