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Cloud Computing for the Enterprise: Part 2: WebSphere sMash and DB2 Express-C on the Amazon EC2 Public Cloud

May 20, 2009 12:00am PDT

Among the three cloud types - public, private, and hybrid clouds - the public cloud is probably the most well-known and mature in its offerings. Accessibility and affordability are two of the key...

Provided by: IBM

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A Quantitative Analysis of High Performance Computing With Amazon's EC2 Infrastructure: The Death of the Local Cluster?

October 15, 2009 12:00am PDT

The introduction of affordable infrastructure on demand, specifically Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), has had a significant impact in the business IT community and provides reasonable and...

Provided by: University of Virginia

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A Quantitative Analysis of High Performance Computing With Amazon's EC2 Infrastructure: The Death of the Local Cluster?

October 15, 2009 12:00am PDT

The introduction of affordable infrastructure on demand, specifically Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), has had a significant impact in the business IT community and provides reasonable and...

Provided by: University of Virginia

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Cloud Computing for Parallel Scientific HPC Applications: Feasibility of Running Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Climate Models on Amazon's EC2

October 23, 2008 12:00am PDT

This paper describes the application of HPC standard benchmark tests to Amazon's EC2 cloud computing system, in order to explore the utility of EC2 for modest HPC style applications. Based on...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Case Studies

Video Publisher Chooses Windows Azure Over Amazon EC2 for Cost-Effective Scalability

July 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

Software company Sagastream developed an online video platform that enables customers to publish and manage interactive videos over the web. The company developed its platform for the cloud,...

Provided by: Microsoft

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The Impact of Virtualization on Network Performance of Amazon EC2 Data Center

December 22, 2009 12:00am PST

Cloud computing services allow users to lease computing resources from large scale data centers operated by service providers. Using cloud services, users can deploy a wide variety of applications...

Provided by: Rice University

Blog Posts

Amazon expands cloud computing to augment Web 2.0 ventures

October 21, 2007 10:27pm PDT

Amazon Web Services opened up its utility computing service, the Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) beta, to all developers, adding large and extra large instance types to provide more flexibility to...

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Amazon EC2 drops a pricing bomb to lure IT leaders to the cloud

March 12, 2009 9:21am PDT

Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web...

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Build a Drupal installation on Amazon EC2

January 9, 2012 6:00am PST

Nick Hardiman performs a Drupal install on his Amazon EC2 machine and provides a cheat sheet of the steps and commands that he used to do it.

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Pros and cons of procuring your own IT in the cloud

December 27, 2011 9:00am PST

Nick Hardiman is ready to add content on his newly created Amazon EC2 machine, but he pauses to consider some important factors before continuing on the public cloud path.

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Building an enterprise application on Amazon EC2

December 12, 2011 9:00am PST

Nick Hardiman begins the process of building an application on the Amazon EC2 machine.

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Patching all the gaps: Securing Amazon EC2

December 2, 2011 6:00am PST

Nick Hardiman tackles the security issue with his new Amazon EC2 machine. Now that he's ready to start uploading and storing sensitive data, it's time to batten down the hatches.

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Getting to the command line: Starting up your AWS EC2 machine with SSH

November 23, 2011 8:53am PST

Nick Hardiman continues his soup-to-nuts series on getting started and learning to work with Amazon Web Services. Here are tips on using the command line to open an EC2 machine.

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Connect to Amazon EC2 with a private key using PuTTY and Pageant

November 15, 2011 6:00am PST

Nick Hardiman shows you how to set up a secure connection to an Amazon EC2 machine using PuTTY and Pageant to handle your private key.

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Host Web assets with Amazon EC2 endpoints

October 21, 2011 9:45pm PDT

Here's a look at using one feature of Amazon EC2 that allows you to host a static Web site or resources.

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Key differences between Amazon EC2 and VMware vCloud Express

October 5, 2009 5:36am PDT

The cloud landscape is filled with many options for hosted server instances in the cloud. In this TechRepublic blog post, IT pro Rick Vanover outlines some differences between Amazon EC2 and the...

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Tool for the cloud: Elasticfox

June 1, 2009 1:01am PDT

The Elasticfox plugin for Mozilla Firefox is a good view into an Amazon EC2 cloud account. In this post, Rick Vanover shows how to get started with Elasticfox.

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Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part 3: Servers on Demand With EC2

October 14, 2008 12:00am PDT

In this paper, learn about cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. Explore how the services provide a compelling alternative for architecting and building scalable, reliable applications. This...

Provided by: IBM

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Building Applications in the Cloud

October 3, 2009 12:00am PDT

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is designed to build and install Oracle Database and Oracle Application Express applications. A browser-based application, Oracle Application Express needs...

Provided by: Oracle

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Cost Minimization for Provisioning Virtual Servers in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

June 5, 2011 12:00am PDT

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides a cloud computing service by renting out computational resources to customers (i.e., cloud users). The customers can dynamically provision virtual...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers