Gary's Shared Google Reader ItemsI started backing up our servers to S3 a few weeks ago. I had been doing weekly tar based backups to my laptop over SSH. Some of the backups are starting to get big, so it was time to move to something else.
My key requirements were to back up to S3 and to use encryption [...]
It looks like Amazon is responding to AppEngine with fire and motion. There were two more announcements this morning that I think are big:
Premium Support for the Web Services. I’m not currently in the market for support (we’re not live at this point and I haven’t run into any problems the forums or google couldn’t solve), but [...]
John Willis has a blog post asking how to handle NMS in the cloud.
At my current gig, we have one piece of hardware that isn’t in the cloud — that runs our our wiki and our RCS. I chose to put our Zenoss NMS station in the cloud. It was a toss up between running it [...]
S3 was down for a couple of hours this morning. There is still no post from Amazon about why yet, but they have promised one.
Jesse Robbins from O’Reilly is reporting that EC2 was down as well. I currently have 8 EC2 instances running (including this blog). As far as all my monitoring goes, my EC2’s weren’t down. I’m currently [...]
I’m not sure why I’m surprised, I suppose they have to make money somehow.
I was thinking about creating an Amazon Web Services group in Vancouver. It turns out it costs around $15/month. I don’t mind footing the bill, but I want to make sure there is interest first.
If you’re interested in starting a Vancouver AWS [...]
I was at a Ruby talk last night. It was done by Scott Patten and it covered using S3 with Ruby (which is why I was there :)).
It’s the first time I’ve talked with people outside my office that are using AWS, which was cool. It’s interesting to see people at different levels of familiarity [...]
