ec2

MongoDB & EC2: A Love Story?

Running Mongodb in the cloud can be challenging. This video gives an overview of a 1.5 year+ experience of running mongodb on amazon EC2 and explains where the project got burnt and where life treated us well.

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Surviving an Amazon EC2 Outage

The recent outage of one of Amazon has put in evidence issues with the architecture of the sites hosted on the cloud. This article proposes 4 rules that should your site maintain high availability, even in the case of an outage from your Cloud provider.

Eucalyptus 2.0 Demonstration

Eucalyptus enables the creation of on-premise private clouds, with no requirements for retooling the organization’s existing IT infrastructure or need to introduce specialized hardware. Eucalyptus implements an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) private cloud that is accessible via an API compatible with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.