By the numbers: How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 — Tech News and Analysis
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013some interesting piece of data comparing AWS and GCE (google compute engine, i.e IAAS offering from google)
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By the numbers: How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 — Tech News and Analysis
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013some interesting piece of data comparing AWS and GCE (google compute engine, i.e IAAS offering from google)
Linode hack – Pastebin.com
Friday, March 2nd, 2012Linode VM hosting service was hacked. ~3000 Bitcoins were stolen
Linode hack – Pastebin.com
Friday, March 2nd, 2012Linode VM hosting service was hacked. ~3000 Bitcoins were stolen
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…
We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace. at Mixpanel Engineering
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010Notes about reasons why Mixpanel moves out of Rackspace cloud to EC2