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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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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

Software

iEC2Cloud 1.0 (Mobile)

July 3, 2009 12:00am PDT

iEC2Cloud is a simple Amazon EC2 instance management application. With iEC2Cloud you can:launch new instances, terminate instances, reboot instances, manage your public IP address, manage your...

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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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EC2 Mobile 1.0 (Mobile)

March 31, 2009 12:00am PDT

EC2 Mobile started as a requirement to launch, manage and monitor our clients' servers. When remote this is sometimes difficult and response time is of utmost priority. This was our mobile...

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EC2 Mobile 1.0 (Mobile)

March 31, 2009 12:00am PDT

EC2 Mobile started as a requirement to launch, manage and monitor our clients' servers. When remote this is sometimes difficult and response time is of utmost priority. This was our mobile...

Provided by: BK! Customization

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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

Software

EC2Dream 0.92 (Windows)

August 18, 2009 12:00am PDT

EC2Dream is a free Graphical System Admin tool aimed at Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus System Administration. It is designed to complement the Amazon AWS Management console. It installs on Windows,...

Provided by: EC2Dream

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EC2Dream 0.92 (Windows)

August 18, 2009 12:00am PDT

EC2Dream is a free Graphical System Admin tool aimed at Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus System Administration. It is designed to complement the Amazon AWS Management console. It installs on Windows,...

Provided by: EC2Dream

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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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Amazon EC2 now offers Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008 R2

October 6, 2011 8:30am PDT

For public cloud compute platforms, a new de facto platform of the private cloud is now available on EC2. IT maharaja Rick Vanover walks through this new feature on AWS.

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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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