449 posts tagged EC2

Adam Jacob and I did an IT Conversations podcast with Phil Windley last week, which I really enjoyed. We started with a summary of Adam's excellent Web2.0 Expo session, covered the phases of startup growth using virtual infrastructures like EC2 and 3tera, and discussed how Puppet shifts us to "Infrastructure as Code".

Announcing availability of new AMIs based on SXCE AMI and GlassFish. For those of you who have been provided access to OpenSolaris AMIs, you have access to these AMIs as well. 1. OpenSolaris (SXCE) + GlassFish ( This is smaller footprint of SXCE or "Just Enough OS" ) a.

I have been using EC2 for some time now, for example hosting the Profoss news website, the Profoss newsletter, and other personal tools. But it was kind of expensive for what I used, so I was looking at alternatives, but as I had not time to tackle it, it was left as an idea. But now my EC2 instance became unavailable.

Note: Because in Amazon EC2 we can't update Kernel and Ramdisk plus OpenSolaris store ZFS pool configuration in Ramdisk in form of ZFS cache you will not be able at least for now to upload your images. You need to use our preprepared JeOS image: This entry is part of Warm welcome: OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 ! 1.

OpenSolaris 0508 (code name Indiana) is based on IPS and ZFS root. IPS as modern packaging system give use more freedom when creating JeOS. However this first OpenSolaris release is Desktop and GUI oriented system with Live CD based installation only, so we need to process needed CLI components selection manually.

During JavaOne 08, it’s been hard to update the blog. Here are below all the interesting things you may have missed. Entries about Amazon Web Services: JBoss AMI - Ubuntu, Apache and JBoss. When Elastic Grid will be released, you won’t need to use a AMI per kind of application/environment you are trying to set up.

For us UNIX fans, Sun Microsystems is working with Amazon to offer OpenSolaris on EC2. I’m not sure how I missed it, but they made the announcement last week. I just signed up to be included in the beta. I’ll post an update here when I get in and start tinkering.

The location: Bang in the middle of Hoxton/Shoreditch trendiness, in the Hoxton hotel, the brain child of the man who founded Pret. You can buy breakfast and booze from reception and if you are lucky they even do special offers on rooms for a quid. The spec: A trendy yet cosy space ran by the Grille chain.

His Story. What is your story? There was a saying.. The grass looks better on the other side of the field. Does it? I think its time for me to move on, to the other side. Im not in a good mood tdy. Maybe tml. I dont know. tsk.

Feed My Guests' Technical Architect Joel Jeffery presented a session on Software plus Services at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2008 a couple of weeks ago. He cunningly asked to use Feed My Guests as his case study, and I agreed to talk a bit about the technology we've chosen and use for our Facebook Application.