Archive for the 'cloud' Category
LastPass : The last password you’ll have to remember: LastPass Security Notification
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Online password keeping service LastPass.com reports that it is possible that they were 0wned. (how nice!) In the same time, PastPass seems to be doing the right things: they had a monitoring in place, so they have detected an anomaly in traffic. As …
Sören Bleikertz – On Amazon EC2′s Underlying Architecture
Friday, April 29th, 2011Some description of EC2 Internals. EC2s are XEN VMs, mine is currently using Xen 3.0.3-rc5-8.1.14.f , which appears to be
F14 Xen package re-build on RHEl5.x (this is by looking at compiler version) . Some info in the article appears to a bit o…
Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption
Friday, April 29th, 2011Postmortem for the April-2011 EC2/EBS outage. It looks like a human errors plus unfortunate cascade of events lead to a requests storm that brought down EBS storage. Also, it appears that Amazon mis-estimated spare storage capacity needed for recov…
[slideshare] Netflix in the cloud 2011 – Adrian Cockcorft
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011Slides from Adrian Cockcorft, Netflix director of cloud systems about current state [for 2011] of Netflix’s AWS-based architecture
http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011Notes from netflix tech blog about some key points of their EC2-based infrastructure design. Note that netflix is not affected by the current EBS problems in AWS US-EAST region. Their key point seems to be to equally split your infrastructure betw…
Who is affected by EC2? – EC2Disabled.com [by Amazon AWS outage of 21 April 2011]
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011The subj. looks really bad!
AWS is down: Why the sky is falling – justinsb’s posterous
Friday, April 22nd, 2011A 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…
Dropbox Lack of Security – Miguel de Icaza
Thursday, April 21st, 2011“This announcement means that Dropbox never had any mechanism to prevent employees from accessing your files, and it means that Dropbox never had the crypto smarts to ensure the privacy of your files and never had the smarts to only decrypt the files f…
[Amazon AWS] PCI DSS Level 1 Compliance FAQs
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Amazon 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