One of the problem with Amazon’s S3 was the inability to take a “snapshot” of the state of S3 at any given moment. This is one of the most important DR (disaster recovery) steps of any major upgrade which could potentially corrupt data during a release. Until now the applications using S3 would have had [...]

Amazon has published another “Best practices” document. This one covers the almost the entire collection of services. Its biased towards AWS (obviously), but its still one of the best description summary of the various services amazon offers today.

Just the diagram above tells a lot about how the various AWS services interact with each other. [...]

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 [...]

Most web applications needs at least the following services to be self sufficient. Computational power, storage, webserver/cdn, database,  messaging, loadbalancer and monitoring.
Here is the tried and tested steps as recommended by AWS folks

Move static web content to S3 storage first. Images, css stylesheets, javascript files, html, etc can all be moved to S3. Its easier [...]