Archive for the 'ebs' Category

The Netflix Tech Blog: Janitor Monkey – Keeping the Cloud Tidy and Clean

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Open Source tool from netflix to automatically “clean up” unused resources (ec2 instances, ebs volumes, etc)

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The Netflix Tech Blog: Janitor Monkey – Keeping the Cloud Tidy and Clean

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Open Source tool from netflix to automatically “clean up” unused resources (ec2 instances, ebs volumes, etc)

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The Netflix Tech Blog: Janitor Monkey – Keeping the Cloud Tidy and Clean

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Open Source tool from netflix to automatically “clean up” unused resources (ec2 instances, ebs volumes, etc)

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Sören Bleikertz – On Amazon EC2′s Underlying Architecture

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Some 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…

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Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Postmortem 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…

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