Comments on: Almost Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Scalr：自動的にスケーリングできるオープンソースのAmazon EC2実現図る

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Scalr：自動的にスケーリングできるオープンソースのAmazon EC2実現図る — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:36:50 +0000

[…] ウェブサービスの現場では2006年秋からEC2を使って容量増強は行っているが、完全に“エラスティック（伸び縮みする弾力性を備えたもの）”になったことは一度もない（そういった状況が発生すると、トラフィックなどの増減に合わせてスケーリングするには更なるマシンの補強とコンフィギュアが必須だ）。Scalrの目指すところは素晴らしい。：「冗長で、自己治癒力を備えた、自分でスケーリングできる」ネットワーク…つまり朝は通常並みのトラフィックに対応し、午後からバズされてドッと人が集まってきても自力で持ちこたえられるセルフ・サスティナブルなサイトに近いものを実現することである。 […]

By: Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:53:14 +0000

[…] Computing Cloud (EC2) service. While web services have been using EC2 for increased capacity since Fall 2006, it has never been fully “elastic” (scaling requires adding and configuring more […]

By: Spottt Reincarnates LinkExchange

Spottt Reincarnates LinkExchange — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:57:19 +0000

[…] is run from Amazon’s EC2 web service, and advertising images are hosted on Akamai (Kaplan says he wants to be able to scale quickly in […]

By: Amazon EC2: Still working on the “elastic” part? - Laughing Meme

Amazon EC2: Still working on the “elastic” part? - Laughing Meme — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:10:28 +0000

[…] over at TechCrunch however ran the numbers, and its looking more like what I get from John Companies, and less like the great mapreduce grid […]

By: Amazon To Launch Payments Services; Will Compete With PayPal and Google Checkout | Tekjuice.com

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:02:27 +0000

[…] by Amazon this week or next of a new web service around payments, adding to their S3 (storage), EC2 (virtual server) and other services. They’ve been quietly testing the service, which will […]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Amazon.com launches independent Endless.com

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:06:31 +0000

[…] Amazon.com has been diversifying their business lately into a variety of initiatives that seem to branch away from their core competency. Endless seems to be more in-line with their core — will it be the first of an endless list of niche websites they launch in an effort to improve (”web 2.0′ing”) the buying experience for each of their product lines? […]

By: TalkCrunch » Blog Archive » Interview With Jeff Bezos

TalkCrunch » Blog Archive » Interview With Jeff Bezos — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:41:54 +0000

[…] Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been talking about their web services business unit a lot lately. Moments after he left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to speak to him about three of the most recent web service offerings: Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This is a short podcast but you get a glimpse of how important this new business line is to Amazon’s future. […]

By: Media Temple Crushes Shared Hosting » JenIT

Media Temple Crushes Shared Hosting » JenIT — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:35:55 +0000

[…] Grid Server can also be compared to Amazon’s new EC2 utility computing service, which we discussed in the podcast. The Media Temple team was quick to point out that EC2 isn’t really designed to deal with permanent virtual server configurations, and lacks customer service and the auto burst capabilities of Grid Server. […]

By: Bloggy Hell » Blog Archive » MediaTemple’s new grid server services

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:10:16 +0000

[…] A grid server is basically lots of little servers that acts like one big server. This means that if a server becomes loaded, they can through more hardware at the problem. Google and Amazon use similar systems, infact Amazon offers a service where you can upload a virtual linux machine on to their grid. […]

By: House of Benjamin Blogness » Blog Archive » Almost Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:03:08 +0000

[…] Almost Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service: “ […]

By: Oliver Thylmann’s Blog » Amazon Elastic Compute Could aka EC2

Oliver Thylmann’s Blog » Amazon Elastic Compute Could aka EC2 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:03:14 +0000

[…] I wrote some time ago about my first AWS Billing Statement, already commented by Marshall from TechCrunch. As they now wrote themselves Amazon EC2 is currently being trialed by a small number of long-time Amazon Web Services customers. […]

By: TechCrunch en français » Rentrée-Crunch

TechCrunch en français » Rentrée-Crunch — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:20:27 +0000

[…] Je me rends compte qu’en l’espace d’une semaine beaucoup de choses importantes ont eu lieu sur le web. Evidemment Google occupe le haut du podium et l’arrivée d’Eric Schmidt au board d’Apple a fait vibrer la blogosphère, sans parler du deal énorme qui lui permettra de placer ses liens publicitaires de manière exclusive au sein de Ebay (une claque pour Yahoo et Microsoft) et du lancement de ce qui semble bien être une suite Office en ligne. Flickr a lancé sa fonction de Géo Tagging que nous avions annoncé et qui a l’air de rencontrer un énorme succès. Windows a lancé son service de recherche Vidéo et AOL distribue les vidéos de ses voisins, et Amazon propose à la communauté d’utiliser les ressources de calcul de son infrastructure. Grouper a été racheté par Sony 65 millions de dollars (une bonne nouvelle pour Youtube ?). […]

By: Amazon’s Linux Hosting « Utterances of a Zimboe

Amazon’s Linux Hosting « Utterances of a Zimboe — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:43:24 +0000

[…] Buyaa! The new Amazon EC2 service seems just unbelievable! Support for easy creation and management of large service grids is just what I need! However, the service isn’t suitable for services, that can’t fully utilize all the resources – 1.7Ghz Xeon CPU, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s bandwidth (source). In such cases services like OpenHosting are still more cost-efficient. Of course, it might be possible for a virtual server provider to utilize the Amazon infrastructure.. […]

By: ProgrammableWeb.com » Blog Archive » Elastic Compute Cloud from Amazon

ProgrammableWeb.com » Blog Archive » Elastic Compute Cloud from Amazon — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:36:36 +0000

[…] For more on the EC2 announcement see also the Amazon Web Services blog, Phil Wainewright who compares it to Sun’s flawed utility vision, Dan Farber’s ZDNet Report, this quick screencast from Jon Udell, and TechCrunch. […]

By: What I’m doing » Amazon EC2: Amazon elastic compute cloud

What I’m doing » Amazon EC2: Amazon elastic compute cloud — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:39:37 +0000

[…] via Techcrunch Amazon Web Services are readying their latest service called EC2 which will allow users to setup and run servers and computing capacity in the cloud. Users of the service can setup a server instance which is hosted with Amazon, and then access and use the servers they setup just like any other. With EC2 there would no longer be a requirement to source and setup physical hardware and the virtual server instances are charged back to the user based on the CPU, storage and bandwidth usage. […]

By: links for 2006-08-25 | blog.forret.com

links for 2006-08-25 | blog.forret.com — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:31:39 +0000

[…] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service Users of the service can setup a server instance which is hosted with Amazon, and then access and use the servers they setup just like any other. Each server instance is the equivalent of a 1.7Ghz Xeon CPU, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s (tags: amazon business distributed hosting web2.0 grid ec2) […]

By: SlashChick

SlashChick — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:21:50 +0000

“A full rack and a hundered megabit link is around 7500 a month if you go teir 1 all the way around.”

Don’t know where you’re getting pricing, but our typical pricing is about 60% of that price, and it’s Tier-1, premium 100% uptime bandwidth all the way around. I know our pricing is fairly competitive with other colo companies out there, and if you want to go cheapo bandwidth, it’s less than half the price you are quoting.

Amazon’s price isn’t competitive, but I don’t think it’s intended to be. This is for tiny companies that are testing things out. Most established companies are still going to want to be able to see their servers and have full access to them 24×7 through the use of KVM-over-IP, etc.

By: Texas Startup Blog: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Texas » Blog Archive » Utility Computing Delivery Model

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:57:39 +0000

[…] According to TechCrunch, Amazon is jumping into the utility computing space. We have been working on our own clustering/grid offering and the question of “how to price” computing capacity has been a hot topic. We have been focusing on the 50% the price of the other guys model, but that will only work for a limited time. The Amazon news starts to define the market. Their pricing is as follows: […]

By: Gordon Mohr

Gordon Mohr — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:41:51 +0000

EC2 remedies one cost inconvenience of S3. Let’s say you put 20 terabytes of unindexed bulk data into S3. Then, say you need to scan it for a string (or very similarly, index it). Just scanning over 20TB would cost ($0.20/GB * 1024GB/TB * 20) $4096 in bandwidth at $0.20/GB, be limited to public-internet speeds, and you’d still need to provide the scanning/indexing machines.

With free bandwidth from S3 to EC2, the bandwidth and machine costs disappear. If a machine could scan at just half the 250Mb/s wire speed, it’d take under 16 days to scan 20TB and cost under $38 (!) — less than 1/100th the previous bandwidth-only cost.

But more temporary instances seem costless to provision, so use 400 instances for 1/400th the time, and get the same 20TB scanning job done at the same cost — in under 1 hour.

Wow.

By: Joseph Scott's Blog

Joseph Scott's Blog — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:35:44 +0000

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)…

I’m starting to wonder if someone over at Amazon really does have a master plan to take over the world. Today they announced the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). EC2 allows you to have a “virtual computer” hosted at Amazon…

By: nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive » Amazon EC2 - (expensive) servers ondemand

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:26:19 +0000

[…] Amazon broke todays biggest news (via TechCrunch) by announcing EC2 (’Elastic Comute Cloud’) - a hosting service allowing customers to instantly add virtual servers on-demand. […]

By: Noise & More » Blog Archive » Amazon EC2 very cool

Noise & More » Blog Archive » Amazon EC2 very cool — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:14:35 +0000

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:57:06 +0000

Amazon is competitive with teir 1 providers. A full rack and a hundered megabit link is around 7500 a month if you go teir 1 all the way around. Amazon is around 9K if you were to duplicate the same configuration. You could easily recoup the 1500 bucks in saved operating costs and trips to the data center.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ほぼ独占レポート: Amazon、ユーティリティコンピューティングサービスを準備中

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ほぼ独占レポート: Amazon、ユーティリティコンピューティングサービスを準備中 — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:18:49 +0000

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By: The Third Bit » Blog Archive » EC2: Commoditized Computing

The Third Bit » Blog Archive » EC2: Commoditized Computing — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:29:09 +0000

[…] The idea has been around for years: buy CPU cycles in bulk, just as you buy watts, and let someone else worry about how it all happens. Amazon’s EC2 (reviewed here by Jon Udell, and here by TechCrunch) brings it one step closer to reality. Move over, Web 2.0… […]