Comments on: Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

By: EC2: Scalr « Tales from a Trading Desk

EC2: Scalr « Tales from a Trading Desk — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:04:23 +0000

[...] Since EC2 appears to be the topic of the week, its worth looking at Scalr. Scalr provides the “elastic” to enable EC2 to provide a dynamic [...]

By: “Auto-magical” Scaling | Cloudscaling

“Auto-magical” Scaling | Cloudscaling — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:04:30 +0000

[...] doesn’t scale, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud does, but wait you need Scalr to actually [...]

By: Hovhannes Avoyan

Hovhannes Avoyan — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:24:16 +0000

Monitis recently announced EC2 monitoring service It provides really deep server and configuration monitoring

By: Amazon Web Services 又推出新服務… at Gea-Suan Lin’s BLOG

Amazon Web Services 又推出新服務… at Gea-Suan Lin’s BLOG — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:38:21 +0000

[...] open source solution：「Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort」，或是專門靠此賺錢的 RightScale (這項服務對於 RightScale 很傷，由於 Amazon [...]

By: CRM Outsiders » Blog Archive » Scalr’s Framework for Open Source Success

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:04:25 +0000

[...] great example of open source and cloud computing. A colleague of mine today forwarded me some info about Scalr, an open source framework that allows you to have a hosting environment via Amazon’s [...]

By: TechCrunch Labs: Our Experience Building And Launching An App On Google App Engine

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:34:18 +0000

[...] it for a while. It’ll also be interesting to see how truly scalable it is, considering the linear scaling efforts on Amazon EC2. The redundancy and ease of deployment should be the immediate attraction for [...]

By: Amazon Web Services Management tools/services « You’re a smart guy, figure it out!

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:33:45 +0000

[...] TechCrunch Article The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort [...]

By: Revealed: The confidence trick at the heart of cloud computing | paasTalk

Revealed: The confidence trick at the heart of cloud computing | paasTalk — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:35:22 +0000

[...] tools including RightScale and Scalr can help. But even so, this is not your core competence and you should stay well [...]

By: Leaving Corporate » 8 thing you should know about Amazon EC2

Leaving Corporate » 8 thing you should know about Amazon EC2 — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:29:45 +0000

[...] isn’t easy. RightScale offers some expensive tools/service for this. There’s also Scalr, which is an open source system already bundled into Amazon Images for you. I have yet to try [...]

By: aggrefeed.com » Blog Archive » Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:31:05 +0000

[...] “Scalr is a recently open-sourced framework for managing the massive serving power of Amazon’ s Elastic 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 machines when the situation arises). What Scalr promises is […]” via TechCrunch [...]

By: Rex Chung

Rex Chung — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:57:04 +0000

Interesting to see that we’re making almost the same thing using Amazon EC2 and S3. We’re also a ruby on rails company building a video transcoding web service. Congrats to Scalr for releasing it and writing up the documentations. We can probably learn something from it.

By: A Chat - Episode 21 at Ben Cooper’s Weblog

A Chat - Episode 21 at Ben Cooper’s Weblog — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:13:56 +0000

[...] TechCrunch has a good writeup [...]

By: Brian Berliner's Brain

Brian Berliner's Brain — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:35:07 +0000

Some Nice Scalr Follow-Ups…

Just ran across a couple of good follow-ups to my article on Scalr: One done by the awesome Amazon Web Services team, and the other done by the kick-ass team at TechCrunch. Glad to see the Scalr project getting some good coverage. Let’s rally aro…

By: Scaling Your Widget Marketing Initiative Gets Easier with Scalr and Amazon EC2

Scaling Your Widget Marketing Initiative Gets Easier with Scalr and Amazon EC2 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:44:03 +0000

[...] recently open-sourced Scalr makes scaling innovative online marketing initiatives just a little bit easier. Scalr is a [...]

By: links for 2008-04-04 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog

links for 2008-04-04 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:35:58 +0000

[...] Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort I’d argue that Scalr makes Amazon EC2 significantly more interesting from a developer’s standpoint. (tags: ec2 aws) [...]

By: Scalr – EC2 Framework » Code Candies

Scalr – EC2 Framework » Code Candies — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:51:35 +0000

[...] und bietet uns genau dasselbe in zartrosa an. Und heute nacht ist es dann auch schon bei Techcrunch. Könnte also doch etwas dran [...]

By: The Cloud Project » Blog Archive » Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:50:38 +0000

[...] Qui l’articolo completo [...]

By: Scalr: Open Source end-all hosting environment for EC2

Scalr: Open Source end-all hosting environment for EC2 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:16:20 +0000

[...] It has gotten its fair share of press, as seen here, here, and here. [...]

By: Thorsten - CTO RightScale

Thorsten - CTO RightScale — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:33:21 +0000

Congrats to the scalr team for putting some nice stuff out there! Dunno why they think they need to “disrupt the established players”. There are so many people that need help getting onto EC2 that we can’t possibly serve them all at RightScale. I believe that more options and some good discussions about how to best leverage the cloud will help everyone and float all boats. At this point we provide far more for the fees we charge than a pile of code. There’s the dashboard, the monitoring, alerting, automation based on alerts to do autoscaling an other things, server templates for dozens of popular packages, plus real support. We’d love nothing more than to lower the fees we charge, but we also need to make sure we can actually make our customers successful in the cloud.

By: naffis

naffis — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:17:16 +0000

@Jono and Deniz: I imagine Amazon will continue proving the basic infrastructure we need and leave the next layer to other companies. There are a lot of companies building tools and platforms to expose the power or EC2 and other platforms and it’s a win win for Amazon to keep it this way. It give customers choice in choosing their providers and tools and it creates that ecosystem you were talking about. eBay is a good example of this.

@Anonymous RightScale Customer : Scalr is not tied to any particular distro, you can use whatever you want including CentOS or Fedora. The prebuilt images are Ubuntu but you can take the scripts and setup and put them on whatever you like. And if you took a look at the actual code you would see that there isn’t too much to do to port it over. There are some simple scripts which can probably be copied over directly without changing anything, create some new images and you’re good to go.

If you’re at the scale where a MySQL support contract is necessary or for that matter being on something like CentOS or Fedora is an absolute necessity then this isn’t for you right now anyway.

By: Anonymous RightScale Customer

Anonymous RightScale Customer — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:37:54 +0000

If this project were using a professional-grade distribution, instead of Ubuntu, I’d have shitcanned the Rightscale contract sitting on my desk waiting to be signed.

As it is, there’s too much to do to port a system like this over to something like CentOS or Fedora. Why is it that the Freetards never understand that the choice of OS makes a difference?

First it was Gentoo, now Ubuntu — don’t you guys realize that *no one* supports apps running on these platforms? Try getting a professional services/support contract with someone like MySQL … and don’t forget to tell them you’re running on a gay OS like Ubuntu. See how far you get.

Great idea, Scalr folks. Use a real distro at the core if you really want to rock the boat.

By: Deniz

Deniz — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:07:28 +0000

I wonder how the dynamic will play out:

I expect that there will be an ecosystem around Amazon Services, open source or not, but there is always the danger (or opportunity) that Amazon will pick the winners who are doing things right and either buy them or provide same/similar functionality.

It might be old news for many, but I remember how the Alexa thing played out last year (the year before last year?) so I hope Amazon takes better care of things this time around.

By: Jono

Jono — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:43:14 +0000

@naffis: I agree, We looked at hosting our upcoming web application on EC2 and S3 awhile back. Unfortunately at that point in time it was more trouble than it was worth + the latency would have been too high with most of our users expected to reside in Australia.

What Amazon really need to do is take care of the scaling on the back end and just present their customers with a simple interface with the customer feeling like they are dealing with 1 server.

The would of course have some sections (like cpanel) where the user would be able to see how many instances they have running, where they are, how much S3 space/bandwidth they are using and where this is stored/mirrored. They could even let the customers make changes here (e.g. say where to store the data , at what load to open a new instance), but at the same time not force them to, letting users just use their service as they would a shared/dedicated hosting service.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:03:07 +0000

The MediaPlug transcoding utility mentioned in the article helps power VisualCV.com (http://www.visualcv.com).

When people add portfolio items (video, images, docs, etc.) to their VisualCVs, MediaPlug is used to transcode, virus-check, and store the items on Amazon S3.

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:25:28 +0000

This looks very cool. Rather then going into details, and if you are interested, I wrote a blog post about this very topic.

http://www.fabi...ybrid-solution/