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Amazon EC2 Boot From EBS

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Cloud computing

Amazon EC2 has  announced the ability to boot instances directly from Amazon EBS snapshots, providing significantly increased flexibility on how customers can manage their instances.Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) can now either be stored in Amazon S3 or as an Amazon EBS  snapshot. Read more…

Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

Friday, March 13th, 2009 | Posted in Cloud computing

Amazon announced reserved instances and this is expected to give momentum to on demand or auto scaling architectures. Amazon also offers a reduced pricing for the reserved EC2 instances. There are 1 year to 3 year model pricing models and after making this one time payment hourly rates are reduced to $0.03 from $0.1 in the case of standard, small on demand instances. More information on pricing is here

It looks like Amazon will have to have announce data transfer rates along with computing time to pass on the real benefit of reserved instances to the end user.

IBM application servers on AWS

Friday, February 13th, 2009 | Posted in Cloud computing

IBM and Amazon announced that they have teamed up to provide cloud computing solutions. With the announced now Amazon will be able to provide IBMs application servers in their cloud computing environment. Amazon is already proving Microsoft Winodws AMIs in their EC2 instances. With the solutions like IBM DB2, Informix, Webshephere flavours and Lotus Web content management solution both IBM and Amazon has strengthened their offerings in cloud computing offerings. Time will tell what Gogrid & Google AppEngine has in store to compete with AWS

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