Tag Archives: ec2

AT&T; Cloud Architect

February 10, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Now, complicated configurations are a thing of the past. With AT&T; Cloud Architect, there’s an automated, standardized and fast way to pick, provision and deploy servers over the web within minutes or hours, not days.

There’s no need to buy or build out your own on-premises infrastructure.

(Full Story: AT&T; Cloud Architect)

cloudcomputing, ec2
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How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse

April 25, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

  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

(Full Story: How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse)

amazon, aws, ec2, scalability
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Deploy a Rails app to EC2 in less than an hour using Rubber

March 15, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Enter Rubber, a Capistrano/Rails plugin that promises to automate the provisioning of both vertically and horizontally scalable multi-instance EC2 deployment configurations.

(Full Story: Deploy a Rails app to EC2 in less than an hour using Rubber)

deployment, ec2, rubyonrails
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