A blog post explaining nature of the current Amazon AWS outage. The deal is that several so-called availability zones (AZ) failed simultaneously in amazon US-EAST region, even though amazon’s FAQ describe such event to be unlikely. Many interestin…
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Amazon AWS is “PCI DSS 2.0 Level 1 -compliant Shared Hosting Provider”. i.e. you can build your PCI-DSS compliant infrastructure using EC2, S3, EBS and VPC to store and process payment card data
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Notes about reasons why Mixpanel moves out of Rackspace cloud to EC2
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if you are on EC2 hosting, redirect all your smpt traffic via SUBMISSION port
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Confirms what was noted elsewhere: EC2 small instance is not worth the money, it performs several times slower than medium or large instances
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Testing amazon and rackspace instances: kernel compile time and “how much it costs to compile kernel on $instance”, and IO tests using IOzone — in short: rackspace is cheaper/better, about 2x on average across the board. Note about “m1.small” i.e. s…
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article tells you that using elcomsoft tools, you can brute-force PGP pass-phrase in ~120 days for ~$9K on 10 EC2 instances.
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very interesting post from people who have done benchmarking and testing amazon EC2 platform
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Amazon’s “Dynamo” – distributed hash table. Interesting bibliography at the end of the article
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