Archive for the 'amazon' Category

AWS is down: Why the sky is falling – justinsb’s posterous

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

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…

[Amazon AWS] PCI DSS Level 1 Compliance FAQs

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

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

We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace. at Mixpanel Engineering

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Notes about reasons why Mixpanel moves out of Rackspace cloud to EC2

Atmail KB: Setting Up SMTP outbound to another port via IPTABLES DNAT

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

if you are on EC2 hosting, redirect all your smpt traffic via SUBMISSION port

Monitoring Cloud Computing Performance with PRTG: CPU, Disk, Memory Speed Comparison of Amazon EC2 Instance Types – From The CEO’s Blog

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Confirms what was noted elsewhere: EC2 small instance is not worth the money, it performs several times slower than medium or large instances

Rackspace Cloud Servers versus Amazon EC2: Performance Analysis

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

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…

Electric Alchemy: Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

article tells you that using elcomsoft tools, you can brute-force PGP pass-phrase in ~120 days for ~$9K on 10 EC2 instances.

Exploring Amazon EC2 for Scale-out Applications

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

very interesting post from people who have done benchmarking and testing amazon EC2 platform

Amazon’s Dynamo – All Things Distributed

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Amazon’s “Dynamo” – distributed hash table. Interesting bibliography at the end of the article