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Surprise! Not all Amazon EC2 compute units are created equal

By David ⋅ January 10, 2010 ⋅ 8 comments

A very interesting discovery made by our sys admin not so long ago: While Amazon EC2 sells its hosting services on the notion of leasing virtualized servers with a guaranteed amount of standard compute units, memory and disk space, it turns out that in fact, not all EC2 compute units are created equal. In other [...]

Amazon, oh Amazon, You Continue to Disappoint Me

By David ⋅ July 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Following Amazon’s EC2 recently reaching capacity at certain EC2 zones, I now shake my head in dismay at what to me, is another poor showing by a service that I would love to love, if only they would let me! So today we get an email from them soliciting feedback to their SimpleDB service, which [...]

Cloud Computing – Amazon EC2 Zone Reaches Capacity

By David ⋅ July 16, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

I’m planning to write a series of posts documenting in detail the experiences that we have had at OleOle migrating our entire website infrastructure from a traditional managed hosting company to Amazon’s Cloud Computing services (EC2, S3, etc.). This was a process we began scoping out at the beginning of ’09 and actually completed just [...]

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