Elastic Grid Blog

The plugin for Amazon EC2 has been updated in order to:

• add support for the new instance types (High-CPU Medium and High-CPU Extra Large),
• update the Typica library.

Amazon has introduced today two new instance types targeted for CPU intensive applications which do not require the amount of memory made available to the large and extra large instances.

The High-CPU Medium instance type provides 5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 1.7 GB of memory, 350 GB instance storage (340 GB plus 10 GB root partition) and a Moderate I/O (like the Small instance type). This instance is a great way to move from a Small instance to a more CPU powered one because this instance type still is a 32 bit system. This instance type is priced at $.20 per CPU/hour.

The High-CPU Extra Large instance type provides 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 7 GB of memory, 1,690 GB instance storage (4 x 420 GB plus 10 GB root partition) and a High I/O (like the Large and Extra-Large instance types). This instance type is priced at $.80 per CPU/hour.

Those two new instance types provides now more options regarding on what you want to scale, that is I/O,  CPU or Memory.

During JavaOne 08, it’s been hard to update the blog. Here are below all the interesting things you may have missed.

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• JBoss AMI - Ubuntu, Apache and JBoss. When Elastic Grid will be released, you won’t need to use a AMI per kind of application/environment you are trying to set up. More on that explained on the BoF slides and the screencast to come.
• Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms - Interesting article from James Murty, the author of JetS3t.
• Processing Pipeline with Amazon S3, SQS, EC2, Ruby, Rails and ActiveMessaging
• Building for Performance and Reliability with Amazon SimpleDB
• SQS-EC2 Job Processor Sample - Quite similar to the demo we made during the BoF on EC2 and Elastic Grid at JavaOne 08.
• Sample application to get started with Amazon SQS and Amazon EC2
• dotCMS : Open Source Web Content Management System - Although the idea of pulling the latest version of the app from Subversion may sound interesting, I see more problems than solutions with that approach; what would happen if someone commits something broken into Subversion?
• Beta release of S3 copy feature
• Tips for Securing Your EC2 Instance
• Redundant Disk Storage Across Multiple EC2 nodes - Useful until most of us can use the Persistent Storage feature and probably still useful after that depending on your needs

The slides of the BoF on Elastic Grid and EC2 are finally available!

Thanks for all of you who could come. We had some interesting discussions and feedback after the talk, and even though Dennis has to come home tonight, I will stay in San Francisco up to the 13th, so feel free to get in touch with me if you’d like to discuss or have some other demo.

For those of you who could not make it for our BoF session, as I said during the talk, the plan is to make a screencast available shortly after I come back home, in Paris, France.

P.S.: of course this presentation is made available from Amazon S3…

This is huge!

Sun is now proposing a whole stack of products/solutions for Amazon EC2.

They are proposing OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 AMI, but also some MySQL on EC2 solution and support!

This is supposed to be announced at the beginning of JavaOne in one of the keynotes.
Just some good PR before our BoF session on Amazon EC2.