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Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby « Rails Dog
kgsamayal | 10 hours ago by KG
We decided to make the site static because of the overhead involved in computing the results and the proprietary nature of the model. We would simply pre-generate the output for all valid permutations of the inputs. The visitor could then choose her read more
DDoS Attack Takes Down Amazon, Wal-Mart
Techrecap | 11 hours ago
If you’ve been doing some last minute Amazon holiday shopping on Wednesday evening, you’ve probably noticed that Amazon’s web site was sluggish and, at times, completely down. The same fate greeted Wal-Mart, Expedia, and a number of smaller sit read more
ultradns
freeslash | 14 hours ago by haytham altabl
ultradns In a sudden Denial-of-Service attack on DNS provider to Internet’s major e-commerce companies, UltraDNS suffered an outage for an hour. The DoS attack on UltraDNS was felt by thousands of online shoppers in Northern California. The att read more
DDoS Attack Takes Down Amazon, Wal-Mart
Mashable - All That's New on the Web | 17 hours ago by Mashable
If you’ve been doing some last minute Amazon holiday shopping on Wednesday evening, you’ve probably noticed that Amazon’s web site was sluggish and, at times, completely down. The same fate greeted Wal-Mart, Expedia, and a number of read more
RELEASE – Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1
Xtreme Diary | December 23rd 2009 by Xtreme Diary
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx first alpha is released today and you can upgrade your server as well as desktop Ubuntu Linux distribution to this version. This is strongly recommended that don’t install 10.04 Alpha 1 on production servers or daily use des read more
Can Amazon EC2 Spot Pricing Work For Cloud Storage? – Enterpris…
Content Delivery Network Blog :: CDN Evangelist | December 23rd 2009 by Randy Cooper
Deploying enterprise storage has never been more confusing, with a wide variety of technology choices available. On this blog, Nirvanix Director of Consulting, Stephen Foskett, presents proven strategies for building an internal storage servic read more
Cybercriminals Go to the Cloud?
Virus DB | December 21st 2009 by mila louis
In an article by Dancho Danchev, he illustrated Trend Micro’s prediction that cloud hosting services such as Amazon EC2M can be easily used for read more
Cloud Computing Company Stocks – Invest in this growing market
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Tips and Tweaks | December 21st 2009
Accenture ACN Cloud Computing Amazon.com AMZN Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Cisco CSCO Cloud Computing Blog Data [...] read more
Amazon Web Services for Managers | Guidelight Business Solutions
Content Delivery Network Blog :: CDN Evangelist | December 19th 2009 by Randy Cooper
Submitted by gstevens on Fri, 12/18/2009 – 09:40 I get asked often about the ins and outs of Amazon Web Services by C-levels, directors and managers. They aren’t looking for nitty gritty nuances of scripting with the API of the El read more
Cloud Considerations: 4 tips for getting started on Amazon EC2
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Tips and Tweaks | December 17th 2009
You need an environment and have decided that Amazon is the way to go. There are some things that should be considered before building your OS on, or uploading to the cloud. 1. Getting started There are a couple of ways to get started with Amazon Cl read more
Amazon EC2 activity library now available
The Citrix Blog | December 17th 2009
Thanks to Ed York and Tom Nikl we now have an activity library with source code for managing Amazon EC2 machines. This activity library includes the following activities: Bundle Instance - bundles an instance within Amazon EC2 (using read more
RailsLab Scaling Rails: Episode #21 - On The Edge - Part 3
Best Tech Videos On The Net | December 16th 2009
This is the last of three screencasts where looking at a couple new libraries to help you scale your Rails applications. In this episode we start by learning about rubber, a capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale on Amazon read more
Amazon Adds Media Streaming, Spot Instances, and VPC Cloud Servic…
Diary of a Mormon software engineer | December 16th 2009
Amazon AWS just keeps getting better and better. Today the company announced three new services to it’s AWS product line. Amazon CloudFront Streaming This new services gives you a world class media server in the cloud. You can now stream media f read more
Cloud Tips: Amazon EC2 & Rejected Email
Just another web developers blog | December 16th 2009 by Konstantin
A few weeks ago I’ve setup my email in the /etc/aliases for user root (and the others) and started to actually read my root email from time to time (I wonder why I never did that before). Anyways, what bugged me straight away is that I had some read more
Cloud Computing, SaaS to drive India SMB market
India - IT Pulse | December 15th 2009
Cloud Computing and On Demand Software (Software as a Service - SaaS) is creating waves across the world. Players like Microsoft with its Azure platform, Amazon with its EC2 platform and Google with its own cloud offering are pushing the envelopes.. read more
Amazon EC2: Poder de cómputo “a la carta”
MadBoxpc.com - Geeks por defecto | December 15th 2009 by Madbox
Como muchos sitios web de alta demanda, Amazon debe tener servidores monstruosamente poderosos para las épocas de alta demanda como navidad o el retorno a clases, pero durante gran parte del año esos recursos quedan en un galpón utilizando espaci read more
spot instances
this is sippey.typepad.com | December 15th 2009 by Michael Sippey
Amazon's doing some interesting pricing innovation with EC2. The latest -- spot instances. More info from Werner Vogels' blog: The central concept in this new option is that of the Spot Price, which we determine based on current supply a read more
News from Slashdot
hackers.ath.cx | December 15th 2009
Australia Could Finally Get R18+ Games Amazon Introduces Bidding For EC2 Compute Time Eolas Sues World + Dog For AJAX Patent Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones "Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress Supreme Court Take read more
Wowza Media Server - Excellent Flash Streaming Alternative!
Teft's Blog | December 14th 2009 by Teft
I recently launched a video site (yes, yet another video site in the world) that required a flash media server to record video from webcams. The concept is simple: Record 6 second interviews/answers to questions asked by people around the world. read more
Dataline, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Successfully Test Cloud Compu…
Extra Technology News | December 14th 2009 by Pro Linker
Dataline LLC and Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully demonstrated a secure cloud computing architecture during the Navy’s Trident Warrior Lab Period. The test showed that a standard shipboard communica read more
Amazon EC2 cloud service hit by botnet, outage
BYOHosting.com Blogs | December 14th 2009 by Alex Ivan
Amazon’s EC2 cloud service has had to deal with a botnet released through its service and a data center power failure in the same week. read more
Spot Instances in Amazon EC2
Website Magazine | December 14th 2009 by Dante Monteverde
Amazon Web Services announced Spot Instances, a new option for purchasing and consuming Amazon EC2 compute resources. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Spot Instances enables cu read more
Zeus Botnet Using Amazon Service as C&C Server
Allspammedup | December 14th 2009
Amazon’s EC2 service is the latest cloud-based service being exploited by the Zeus Trojan. Security researchers have discovered the Trojan is using EC2 as one of its command and control centers. PCs that have been infected with the malware and tur read more
Amazon EC2 gets a spot market
BYOHosting.com Blogs | December 14th 2009 by Alex Ivan
Customers can bid on unused Elastic Compute Cloud capacity and run those instances as long as their bid exceeds the spot price. read more
Notes for 12/13/2009
MasterMaq's Blog | December 14th 2009
Here are my weekly notes: A very cold weekend in Edmonton. On Friday night, the plug on my block heater cord snapped off. Tonight, I’m guessing a pipe burst because the garage under my apartment building flooded. I barely got my car out of harm’ read more
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Alpha 1
Mundo Linux | December 13th 2009 by Dani Garcia
El camino hacia una nueva versión de Ubuntu ha comenzado hoy con el lanzamiento de la primer Alpha de Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx ,como siempre se dice en estos casos es una versión en desarrollo no apta para la instalación en equipos de producción, read more
Amazon EC2 cloud service hit by botnet, outage
BYOHosting.com Blogs | December 12th 2009 by Alex Ivan
Amazon’s EC2 cloud service has had to deal with a botnet released through its service and a data center power failure in the same week. read more
Amazon EC2 cloud service hit by botnet, outage
Safe Guard Your Identity | December 12th 2009 by J. Neil Ferree
Amazon’s EC2 cloud service has had to deal with a botnet released through its service and a data center power failure in the same week. By Lance Whitney Share and Enjoy: Relater PostsNote to Silicon Valley: How no read more
Cloud News: Amazon Outage Thriller, EC2 Hacking & Microsoft A…
Computers by web | December 12th 2009 by Shane Blasingame
Whoops! Missed a day there. I was busy planning out events for 2010 for GoGrid! I realize now that this is somewhat difficult writing about Cloud News every day so I’m going to start something for Fridays called “This Week in Cloud” read more
Malware is Hiding in Amazon Cloud
Information Security Blog | December 11th 2009 by Mourad
Cybercriminals have made this week unforgettable for Amazon team this is after that security researchers have reported existing of Zeus Botnet at The cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) control center. The incident has been detected after a Pass read more
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