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Red Hat storage appliance for Amazon Web Services

Red Hat is releasing its own virtual storage appliance for Amazon Web Services for shifting enterprise datacenter files to the cloud. Built upon built on former Gluster technology acquired by Red Hat in 2011

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Creating Web Services by Working Backwards at Amazon.com

The product definition process works backwards in the following way: we start by writing the documents we’ll need at launch (the press release and the faq) and then work towards documents that are closer to the implementation.

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Amazon Web Services Toolkit for Eclipse – Version 2.0

The new features include a new AWS Explorer, support for multiple AWS accounts and identities, new editors for Amazon S3, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS, a new SimpleDB query editor, remote debugging for Elastic Beanstalk environments, and support for creating connections to databases hosted on Amazon RDS.

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CDN Speed Comparisons – Stack Exchange

Stackoverflow.com’s amazon + netdna +edgecast CDN performance test with result

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How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse

  1. Spread across as many AZs as you can.
  2. Beyond mission critical? Spread across many providers.
  3. Build for failure.
  4. Understand your components and how they fail.
  5. Try to componentize your system.
  6. Test your components.
  7. Relax. Your stuff is gonna break

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AWS Developer Forums: Life of our patients is at stake

“You put a life critical system on virtual hosted servers? What the hell is wrong with you?”

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