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News about amazon ec2
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Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates
Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.
By Jon Gold | 17 March, 2012 07:39
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Microsoft Windows Azure tops Cloud speed tests
Microsoft’s Windows Azure has come out on top in a year’s worth of Cloud speed tests, beating Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and 20 others.
By Diana Nguyen | 10 October, 2011 15:34
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Opera responds to Amazon's Cloud-powered 'Silk' browser
One of to features of Amazon's recently announced Kindle Fire tablet drawing attention is its WebKit-based 'Silk' Web browser. What makes Silk different from most browsers is its 'split browser' approach: Putting together complicated Web pages in Amazon's Cloud infrastructure before downloading the end result to the browser.
By Rohan Pearce | 30 September, 2011 10:17
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Aussie business largely unaffected by Amazon EC2 outage
Despite Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) services in the US-EAST-1 Web services centre having experienced another outage, as well as issues with the Amazon Relational Database Service in Virginia, and left social networking sites such as FourSquare out of action, Australian businesses appear to be largely unaffected.
By Hamish Barwick | 09 August, 2011 16:16
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Amazon Cloud outage bad for business
Outages to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offerings over the weekend have received plenty of global coverage, but they left at least one Australian business frustrated.
By Hamish Barwick | 27 April, 2011 12:29
Features about amazon ec2
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Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?
There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.
By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52
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