What’s in the cloud?
Nowadays, there are many services provided by Amazon WebServices (from now on referred to as AWS). Names and acronyms such as S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, SimpleDB, CloudFront, EBS, EIA are swirling around. I intend not to describe all of these, rather I will concentrate on the second acronym; EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and its two companions EBS (Elastic Block Storage) and EIA (Elastic IP Address). These components (EC2/EBS/EIA + S3)…
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I have previously investigated virtualization. A few years ago I used VMware WorkStation to run Fedora and Ubuntu on top WindowsXP. And before last summer, I used WMWS for a customer project running a deskop Ubuntu and two server Ubuntus (one with Oracle and the other as the project server). This autumn I discovered KVM @ Ubuntu. During this year I have been “kicking the tires” of the next logical…
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