EC2

Is an “EC2 is down” GigaOM post to be expected for every AWS status dashboard update?

Amazon’s EC2 Service Suffered Some Hiccups 2009

The technical differences in EC2 instance behavior – - for instance, transient local disk storage — are small enough that developers can migrate applications with minimal changes.

You Say You Want a Cloud Revolution 2009

Here's some choice language from the SLA for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) service for virtual computing power: "Unless otherwise provided in the AWS Agreement, your sole and exclusive remedy for any unavailability or non-performance of Amazon EC2 or other failure by us to provide Amazon EC2 is the receipt of a Service Credit (if eligible) in accordance with the terms of this SLA or termination of your use of Amazon EC2."

Putting The Brakes On Public Cloud Adoption Dan Woods 2010

Here's some choice language from the SLA for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) service for virtual computing power: "Unless otherwise provided in the AWS Agreement, your sole and exclusive remedy for any unavailability or non-performance of Amazon EC2 or other failure by us to provide Amazon EC2 is the receipt of a Service Credit (if eligible) in accordance with the terms of this SLA or termination of your use of Amazon EC2."

Putting The Brakes On Public Cloud Adoption Dan Woods 2010

Moreover, EC2 is “uncontrollable” only insofar as Amazon is unresponsive to its web-services customers.

Why Amazon Will Make or Break Twilio 2009

I wonder if Amazon gets a slice of this larger cost or if the difference between plain EC2 and RHEL EC2 all goes to RedHat, I suspect it does not.

Amazon EC2 and RedHat Enterprise! : #comments 2007

Or, get an EC2 account and use it as the front end to S3 for some or all of your domains (traffic between S3 and EC2 is free), an EC2 instance would cost you approx $80 per month + traffic costs (same cost structure as S3).

Scripting News for 1/31/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

I’ve heard several enterprises express an interest for guaranteed CPUs in EC2, even if it meant entering into a contract of some sort.

Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers 2009

“Someone should tell Amazon, as EC2 is one of the IaaS providers given as an example of services whose costs will still increase with demand, meaning they can’t deliver the service profitably.”

HP Not So Sure About EC2 2009

While Amazon’s EC2 is a “generic” x86 example, some providers will offer specific CPUs. e.g. SPARC, RISC, etc.etc. and be able to charge for it.

Hybrid Computers Will Hide in the Cloud 2009