A few days ago I blogged about how VMware is going to do a huge push into “private clouds” around the VMware 2009 conference. But little did we know that Amazon had something up its sleeve as well. It has announced it today.
AWS now supports creation of Virtual Private Cloud with private address space (including [...]

 
If you have not used EC2 because of some reason, chances are that those reasons don’t exist anymore. More information available in the following places.

AWS Blog
All things Distributed
Right Scale

 
Finally it happened. EC2 is available for everybody. And more than that they now provide servers with 7.5GB and 15GB of RAM per instance. Sweet.  
For a lot of companies EC2 was not viable due to high memory requirements of some of the applications. Splitting up such tasks to use less memory on multiple servers [...]

Smugmug.com, a 5 year old company with just 23 employees has 315000 paying customers and 195 million photographs. CEO & “Chief Geek” Don MacAskill has a nice set of slides where he talks about its 5 year journey during which it went from small startup to a profitable business. The talk was given during Amazon’s [...]

The first thing most doc-com companies do before going public is setup an infrastructure to provide the service. And though it might sound straight forward to most of you, it can be a very expensive affair. To come up with the right kind of infrastructure for any new service a few key architectural decisions have [...]