We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace. at Mixpanel Engineering
http://code.mixpanel.com/amazon-vs-rackspace/ Notes about reasons why Mixpanel moves out of Rackspace cloud to EC2
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Monitoring Cloud Computing Performance with PRTG: CPU, Disk, Memory Speed Comparison of Amazon EC2 Instance Types - From The CEO's Blog
http://www.paessler.com/blog/2009/04/06/prtg-7/monitoring-cloud-computing-performance-with-prtg-cpu-disk-memory-speed-comparison-of-amazon-ec2-instance-types/ Confirms what was noted elsewhere: EC2 small instance is not worth the money, it performs several times slower than medium or large instances
"Reinventing the Dialplan" slides from Twilio's Astricon 2009 talk [asterisk in the cloud]
http://www.slideshare.net/twilio/reinventing-the-dialplan-slides-from-twilios-astricon-2009-talk Company provides Virtual PBX - asterisk “in the cloud”, with HTTP/XML/REST API (business-level google voice)
Is Google Apps Premier Edition support effective? - Google Apps Help
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?hl=en&tid=384dd0d72db87c6d thread on google support forums about ‘Google Application Premiere Edition’ customer and technical support, features and like
Electric Alchemy: Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR
http://news.electricalchemy.net/2009/10/cracking-passwords-in-cloud.html article tells you that using elcomsoft tools, you can brute-force PGP pass-phrase in ~120 days for ~$9K on 10 EC2 instances.
Yahoo!'s PNUTS Database: Too Hot, Too Cold or Just Right? | High Scalability
http://highscalability.com/yahoo-s-pnuts-database-too-hot-too-cold-or-just-right writeup on yahoo PTUNS (distributed database ). Also, see the original paper if you are interested.