Amazon Cloud Journal on Ulitzer
Amazon releases the ability to share EBS snapshots so others can utilize and
consume your data, irrespective of format.
But EBS is more than just persisted data. It is a whole mechanism to allow
for quickly taking snapshots of your data partition and then mounting that
partition elsewhere. Take for example, having your database running on an EBS
partition. You can snapshot that partition and mount that new clone on
another machine. Quick and easy.
Amazon were quick to exploit this feature and offer publicly blessed
pre-configured datasets. For example, ever fancied having the WikiPedia
dataset available to your application? Or maybe you would prefer to have all
the US Addresses mapping information?
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As the theme tune to the classic 1984 Ghostbusters movie goes, "If there's
something strange, in your neighborhood, Who ya gonna call?", I am left
wondering what we'll all be singing (shouting?) when something goes wrong in
our cloud world. When you've got your whole business in the cloud and there
is an outage, just what happens to your bottom line? What happens to your
customers? What ... (more)
Amazon SimpleDB - SQS web services are within easy reach of any Java
developer with these 2 non-dependent class files.
No fuss, no nonsense, just code that works.
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We love this new virtual world of ondemand computing, but have you wondered
just how many servers Amazon, Google, Microsoft or any of the cloud providers
really have at their disposal?
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A very simple POJO Java class for accessing all of the features of Amazon's
SQS web service.
Full API support. No dependencies. Just use it!
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Alan Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Cloud Computing Journal and is SYS-CON's "
Jeremy Geelan
Jacques Durand
Alf Pilgrim
Per Sjofors
Kirsten Lytsen
Data Recovery Services
Colin Armitage
