Rackspace just launched a new suite of cloud computing (really virtualized hosting) products. We use a bunch of these products from different companies. We also have a consulting practice dedicated to Amazon’s EC2 offering, so I wanted to take a closer look at how the different offerings stack up in terms of price and features. [...]
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Comparative Pricing for Virtual Hosting Providers
June 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Amazon, Virtualization, Web/Tech, Work
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Windows on Amazon EC2
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Amazon, Virtualization
Back in February I suggested that Amazon and Microsoft should figure out a way to provide Windows Server on Amazon’s EC2 hosting service. Three weeks ago, Amazon announced a private beta of their Windows hosting service on EC2; today they are opening EC2 on Windows up to everyone.
Their pricing is interesting. It’s slightly more than [...]
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New Platform Consulting Products: Amazon and Facebook
October 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Amazon, Business, Collaboration, Content, Community, Facebook, Virtualization, Web/Tech, Work
Just posted three new categories of consulting practices over on the consulting web site:
Facebook (application strategy, corporate presence and application development)
Amazon Web Services (focusing on their S3 storage and EC2 hosting products)
The Facebook and Amazon practices actually aren’t new, but we’ve packaged them up in the form of consulting practices and put them on the [...]
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SanDisk Flash Drive to Offer Web Storage
January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Amazon
Link: SanDisk Flash Drive to Offer Automatic Web Storage
The web storage service they’re using is none other than Amazon S3. The pricing model (first six months free to get consumers hooked, then $30 a year) is smart, too — providing a fixed price for a variable-priced storage service is crucial for consumers, but at the [...]
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Shortcuts to Amazon MP3 Search
October 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Amazon, Yahoo
Yahoo! Search’s "Open Shortcuts" feature is the thing that keeps me using Yahoo! Search. It’s sort of a geek/power user feature, but it’s incredibly useful if you do lots of searches on specific sites. I find search shortcuts particularly useful for media sites such as Netflix and eMusic — because so many web sites talk [...]
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Amazon Rolls Out New EC2 Server Types
October 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Amazon, Virtualization
Amazon.com added some beefier server configurations to their EC2 virtualization product (and some new price points). You can now get a virtual 64-bit server with 7.5 GB of RAM and 850 GB of storage for $0.40 for hour or a big burrito with 15GB of RAM and 1,690 GB of storage for $0.80 per hour. [...]
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Amazon S3 Provides Service-Level Agreement
October 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Amazon
Terrific news, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service now has an SLA. This is one of the big features that they were missing and I suspect it’s going to go a long way toward making S3 more attractive as a commodity storage service.
As with a lot of these things, there are a bunch of caveats. They’re only [...]
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New Amazon MP3 Store is Righteous
September 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Amazon
I heard a rumor that the one millionth Amazon.com MP3 store fanboy blog post would win a free frozen turkey delivered personally by Jeff Bezos, so here goes.
I needed to buy the Lily Allen record because she’s just cute as a button and appears to embody every facet of British womanhood, so I decided to [...]
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Amazon Bucket-Testing New Home Page Design
September 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Amazon
Amazon.com is previewing a new home page redesign with some of their users (in the exciting world of springing jarring changes onto the users of unreasonably large web sites, this is known as ‘bucket-testing’). You might not see the changes when you go to Amazon unless they put your account in the test bucket.
I’m not [...]
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First Look: Amazon Flexible Payments Service
August 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Amazon
I was interested in the announcement of the Amazon Flexible Payment Service; I browsed their documentation on the couch on Sunday night.
I haven’t gotten through it all yet, but at first glance this seems like it’s going to suffer from the same big problem as Google Checkout — it’s only available in the United States, [...]
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