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Has anyone worked with Amazon's Web Services?
I've been reviewing a number of offerings from Amazon, including their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3). I also read about 800 pages of related documentation as provided by Amazon. A project that I'm working on requires a dynamically scalable server farm since I need to support 800,000 - 1.5 million online iPhone users. Has anyone at TechHui worked with Amazon's Web services? How about Scalr? (Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon's EC2).
Related links:
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud
Scalr information
Java lib for basic services
JetS3t, Java lib for S3
Related links:
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud
Scalr information
Java lib for basic services
JetS3t, Java lib for S3
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Permalink Reply by Jerry on
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I haven't worked with Amazon myself, but I know quite a few people who use or have used S3 to host podcast files and the like. Not exactly the same scale that you're looking at, but they didn't have many problems with it unless the service dropped all at once...which I only heard of happening once.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on
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We use EC2 and S3 for Ooi. So far, so good. We'll see how it goes when we do our public beta. I know a number of other local companies using Amazon's services including Sprout. They have significant volume and Amazon seems to be working well for them.
We haven't tried Scalr. Recently we were looking at RightScale. -
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Permalink Reply by Greg Hester on
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My company, Pacific Hi-Tech, is the Hawaii reseller of DigitalChalk.com and these guys use Amazon Web Services extensively. I've played with it a bit and it is very cool. I also stood up a server on AWS using EC2 & S3 myself as a demo of some technology and it worked great and was a cheap solution with a short commitment. I also got "Elastic Fox" and "S3 Organizer" Firefox extensions so that I could get out of the command line world. These tools make the work a bit easier.
The guys at DigitalChalk are experts at AWS. Check out Troy Tolle's Blog as he has some recent posts on AWS. -
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Permalink Reply by Troy Tolle on
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Thanks Greg for the invite to this new site. I haven't been to Hawaii yet, but I would love to come out sometime. As for the posting... I do use Amazon Web Services extensively. We utilize S3, EC2, SQS, SimpleDB, DevPay and even some new ones that we are working with Amazon on in beta. Anything in particular you are curious about? Let me know and I will answer what I can. I have taken a look at Scalr and other similar projects. If you are looking for quick implementation and deployment, I would recommend looking at RightScale. We have helped a couple of other companies stand up infrastructures on their solution.
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