Elastic Grid Blog

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Typica 1.2 released: now provides support DevPay LS and updated to the latest EC2 API
• SDB: adds support for UTF-8 strings through the REST interface
• Building for Performance and Reliability with Amazon SimpleDB
• Mass Video Conversion Using AWS: the article has been updated in order to improve the code and benefit from latest AWS changes/releases!
• Creating a WordPress Plugin Using Amazon SDB

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Persistent storage for EC2: as announced on AWS blog, but also here and here!
• Amazon announced a Service Health Dashboard and some Paid Support options, although the pricing model won’t fit for everone.
• Some new success stories: Assay Depot, Digitaria, The Talk Market, Familybuilder.com, and Animato, via AWS Blog.
• Tarzan: PHP5 modules for S3, EC2 and SQS.
• ActionScript3 library for SimpleDB.
  

As said previously, I’m going to JavaOne this year for a BoF on Elastic Grid.

I will arrive at San Francisco on April, 30th and leave by May, 13th.

If you’d like to talk to me when I’m there, feel free to drop me an email at jerome DOT bernard AT elastic-grid DOT com.

I would be pleased talking with you about Amazon services, Rio and Jini, or whatever else…

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

• add support for the Availability Zones,
• fix compatibility with the Mac platform,
• update the Typica library.

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Another Getting Started with EC2 guide for Mac OS X users
• Grails plugin for deploying to Amazon EC2, via Cloud Tools blog
• A rock-solid setup for sending SMTP mail from your EC2 web server

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• SimpleDB Denormalization Design, via the SDB forum
• Best practices for ensuring max uptime, via the EC2 forum
• Who pays for regional traffic?, via the EC2 forum
• Scalr: Scalable Web Sites with EC2, via AWS Blog

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Right_AWS 1.7.1 released - Ruby library for SDB, EC2, S3, and SQS
• Article on Python Persistence in SimpleDB

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Configuring Amazon EC2 for RAID
• Amazon’s cloud computing service fuels startup’s launch
• Typica supports DevPay LS APIs: I hope the FPS APIs will be proposed soon…

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Great tutorial explaining how to upgrade your servers using Elastic IPs.
• Another tutorial illustrating fault-tolerant architectures on EC2 using Availability Zones.

Entries about Amazon Web Services:

• Amazon EC2 now provides elastic IP addresses and availability zones:
  • elastic IP addresses are static IP addresses associated to your AWS account which can be remapped on the fly to any EC2 instance,
  • availability zones allows you to control where (meaning which data center) you want to start your EC2 instance

Update:

• Amazon EC2 also provides user selectable kernels which allow to run a different kernel than the one provided by Amazon, via AWS Blog.