tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83108531006057994652024-03-13T08:31:51.362-07:00Amazon Web Development ServicesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-49682429733194607482012-11-27T20:43:00.001-08:002013-12-04T20:45:52.657-08:00AWS is Poised to Reinvent the Wheel Soon!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Amazon Web Services and its team are hosting a conference in November to reinvent its strategy and stress on the fact that it is ideally focused for the developers.</div>
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Amazon wants to bring in developers who build applications on its platform closer since they are pivotal in making businesses work. AWS has received backlash from competitors for not being developer-friendly enough. It is also blamed for not being true platform as a service (PaaS) solution and not having a developer focus on a program specifically for the developer network.</div>
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But AWS officials refrain from complying and agreeing to any of the arguments since they state that in reality, new developers are turning to AWS for app development and business development through the cloud computing platform.</div>
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All startups are dependent on developers, and adroit developers are required for making the most of the platform. <b>AWS Developer</b> is responsible for growth that AWS has made since its inception. In 6 years, AWS has seen drastic developer-driven blogosphere activity which was beneficial for the company and its prospects. It is part of the community.</div>
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Amazon insists that they are focused on developers’ needs and wants. Many of AWS services were cited to be extremely developer-centric. Amazon analysts and representatives agreed that AWS has actually created a fair amount of tooling and since the platform is language-agnostic, there are full software development kits and support for multiple languages. Along with the toolset, UI management console has expanded considerably to incorporate a variety of services.</div>
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Services are created which can help in uploading your application and expanded to include languages right from PHP and .NET to Java. Amazon representatives have admitted that they are yet to create something drastically effective in the tools space depending on evolving customer needs. AWS is continuously trying make services easier to use for a huge set of customers. Amazon has a good actual set of actual tools compared to other platforms that have comparatively fewer tools to serve developers who are interested in building applications and even in migrating the same to the cloud.</div>
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The AWS event which will be held in November is expected to be much more than a a developer conference. It would touch topics related to IT department decision making and also on strategies required to be adopted for better visibility into the organization. Partners have an important role to play since they are required to present innovative apps based on the platform, putting their skills to test. The official conference would include partner solutions which will be mentioned throughout the main event.</div>
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Deep technical sessions are expected to be held during the event and many developers are expected to join the event. The conference would provide clear insight into <b>Amazon Web Services</b> and its working from now on. It would also present a picture of the future for AWS as a cloud computing platform and its new tools will aid in supporting the legacy of cloud computing. AWS wants the world to know that it is a developer-centric organization and would provide for anything that is needed.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0United States37.09024 -95.71289111.6301275 -136.1425785 62.5503525 -55.2832035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-30324494793392215122012-10-15T02:16:00.000-07:002013-10-13T22:51:41.537-07:00Amazon Web Services and Android application development<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Amazon Web Services has been part of a great cloud computing platform which has managed to deliver services in a consistent manner. One can create Android apps and host them there too!<br />
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Most company databases of information are always meant to be confidential since they contain proprietary data which is meant to be kept safe and secure from snooping eyes. Most large e-commerce firms including Amazon, eBay, and Google are going the opposite way by actually creating repositories for companies to store their data on the cloud. But one might be wondering what would online companies actually gain from exposing their critical data to third-party vendors? Why would anyone release competitive information for everybody?<br />
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These companies are sure of what they are uploading to the cloud. They refrain from giving outsiders access to their complete databases. Privacy and confidentiality are both of maximum interest to companies and hence no one outside the company would be able to access critical information. Web services restrict certain aspects of the database from exposure.<br />
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Native Android apps utilize server-side components for completing several tasks including content delivery, access control management or data sharing. <b>Amazon EC2 developers</b> can access the cloud computing infrastructure and even scale their resources up and down for hosting their mobile applications. All AWS services are always available on a pay-as-you-go pricing model without the need to invest in it upfront.<br />
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Many types of Android applications can easily leverage the AWS cloud offering. Here are some good examples of the types of Android applications that best leverage the AWS cloud offering:<br />
Social, Gaming and Media Apps are based on scores, statistics, and also features such as geo-location. Amazon SimpleDB, a key-value store, can be used as a non-relational database with the help of its non-query functionality for storing app information. <br />
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A typical media application can upload multimedia files like photos and videos to Amazon S3, which is actually a durable and highly available storage solution which is known for its easy accessibility. Amazon EC2 developers also use this storage solution for their tasks. The storage buckets can be easily connected to the internet through the Amazon CloudFront which is a huge network related to content delivery. A photo community app allows users for photo uploads and for applying filters to them. Amazon EC2 virtualized server resources are used by Amazon EC2 developers for high quality image processing and resizing. An ad server that runs on Amazon EC2 can query Amazon SimpleDB for user statistics accessibility.<br />
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Cross-device availability has risen in credence and in popularity. End-users sometimes own a tablet and a smartphone simultaneously. Those having both will need access to the same information sometimes a single identity across multiple devices. Most developers also like to store user accounts and statistics in Amazon SimpleDB so that they can share it across multiple platforms.<br />
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One can use Amazon SQS for sending messages between devices along with Amazon SNS which does not require additional infrastructure. Business applications can also be used with the help of <b>Amazon Web Services</b> which would help the businesspeople to manage meetings, notes and files. A managed relational database like Amazon RDS and many other AWS products will help sort out storage issues too.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0United States37.09024 -95.71289111.6301275 -136.1425785 62.5503525 -55.2832035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-79929382132843218692012-10-04T01:52:00.003-07:002013-10-13T22:52:01.648-07:00AWS App Development & Hosting By Using Cloud Computing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The new cloud computing platform by Amazon has given small IT companies a chance to host their apps against feeble payments. Small IT companies who struggle to set up their own app hosting platforms are benefiting a lot from the AWS app development. It has been noticed that majority of the entry level fast growing app developers choose AWS for swift hosting. This huge response from the developers propelled AWS to new heights in recent years.<br />
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The <b>AWS developer</b> platform has a wide range of languages available like Java, Ruby, PHP, .NET etc. and they have full SDKs and toolsets to help new developers. The user interface management console of AWS is expanded to include all the available services and is evolved continually. <br />
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The AWS app development platform promises to offer an “upload your application and don’t worry about running it” environment. <br />
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AWS provides a long list of services and products to help different firms to develop apps via cloud computing. Some of the well known ones are as follows:<br />
1.Amazon CloudFront: a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for dealing out objects to edge locations close to the supplicant.<br />
2.Amazon CloudWatch: it scouts and monitors for AWS cloud applications and resources.<br />
3.Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): It gives scalable virtual confidential servers by using Xen (which allows multiple computer OS to execute simultaneously using the same computer hardware).<br />
4.Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS): used by EC2 for persistent block-level storage volumes.<br />
5.Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3): gives storage based on Web Service.<br />
6.Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): It helps to create a logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances which is usually connected to other networking devices using Virtual Private Network.<br />
7.Amazon CloudSearch: It helps developers gain specific information and even codes from the cloud computing domain.<br />
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The <b>Amazon Web Services</b> cloud space provides some distinct advantages to the developers (whether new or experienced) as well. It does not require the use of high end computing devices since hardware and software is pinpointed here. The resource usage is also minimal since the entire process is stored in a virtual setup. The entire AWS cloud computing platform goes very easy on the pocket for all the companies using it. <br />
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It significantly reduces a company’s IT investments, if an effective cloud computing platform is set up. Since the entire process is virtual, the developers have unlimited space providing them with the opportunity to broaden their spectrum of work to a great extent. The platform provides collaboration of documents easily as well.<br />
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The AWS marketing vice president Adam Selipsky says that “if you compared us to the actual tooling that other companies have in place today to serve developers who are building and migrating applications to the cloud, we compare very favourably.”</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-72084752711375659462012-09-27T22:14:00.001-07:002013-10-13T22:52:20.402-07:00Google’s Computing Engine – the Biggest Rival of Amazon Web Services (AWS)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Google's Compute Engine gives a new way for monetizing investment in data centers along with networking options. The new cloud platform is offering new options for companies who are interested to run their business in the cloud. It also gives a direct challenge to <b>Amazon Web Services</b>, who has ruled the space in recent years.<br />
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The announcement of the Google Compute Engine pitches Google’s battle with Amazon, which earns much more money than it does selling books. The details of the Compute Engine are still sketchy, but it is said that it gives companies, access to Linux Virtual Machines which Google uses for powering its own business. The company also promises 50% more computing power than with other leading cloud providers for the same amount of money. </div>
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Google representatives say that the company has worked very hard for lowering the overall cost of computing over the decades. The company also claims that the Compute Engine also boasts of better performance over any of the competitors. Even the initial reports from beta testers confirm the same.<br />
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Google Compute engine is for companies who have more than 100 cores. The company spokesperson was clear when he said that the limited preview of the offering is likely to last months, but would not go on for years. He stated that the overall technology itself was ready, but the company wanted to make sure, if it could pitch in a comparable sales experience along with customer support.<br />
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It is evident that Google’s Compute Engine will not be able to present the entire suite of cloud computing products which is now offered by <b>Amazon Web Services</b> and Rackspace. But it is presumed that it is a matter of time until Google would establish its supremacy in the field. The company has the infrastructure in place which could launch the Compute Engine as a credible alternative to most of its competitors.<br />
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Amazon on the other hand, is content to play as it goes. The company has long been facing several power outages and problems because of disruption. Amazon seeks to improve its offerings in the coming months although the success of enhancements will be proved at a later stage. Till it manages to stay afloat, Google has the change to pounce on the competition in the cloud computing market. <br />
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Additionally, one of the biggest questions here is how much does Google care about the cloud computing market. One needs to know about the perspective of Google in this regard since its attention and resources needs to attend a brand-new set of demanding customers who are not satisfied with weak returns and output. Also, Google needs to take care of outages and other problems which Amazon is presently facing before going live with its services on a large scale. Many analysts believe that Google would surely prove to be an extremely stiff competitor in the cloud computing world and would not be any more different from consumers who have been using Gmail every day. Amazon would have to think out a way to counter Google’s moves now!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-4041773783363134552012-09-17T21:39:00.000-07:002013-10-13T22:53:26.120-07:00The Future of Amazon Web Services EC2 Development as a Build and Development Environment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is invariably found that many users are not given root access in their machines which creates a huge problem for getting additional software installed in it. The systems are then made to access using a slow VPN connection which is ridiculous to say the least. Also, there are many obstacles to actually create real progress in there. For getting out of the rubble here, one looks forward to Amazon EC2 for getting the right set of services.<br />
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When starting out to use Amazon EC2, it is important for IT professionals to size up their needs. One needs to be sure and have the ability to get a machine image which can be used. One needs to get complete control over the operating system along with the software one might need for coding as a <b>Amazon EC2 developer</b>. He manages to fulfil the needs promptly.<br />
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For starters, it might take a while to understand the steps and create the perfect image of the capacity and performance of a machine that one needs but after due attention, one will surely get the hang of it and determine the necessary details. Evidently, the documentation provided by <b>Amazon web services</b> does not help you out with the details and hence one must be sure enough of the image when you create it. The default image size is that of 1GB and it can be stretched only upto 10GB. Also, one should remember that shutting down an image will damage everything that you might have installed or kept in that image. One might make the mistake a couple of times by installing the software and then shutting it down. <br />
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Additionally, as most developers have noted down that there are specific limitations with Amazon EC2 related to the storage. Other than that, it is a little problematic that no static IP is assigned to any of the images. Also, one will not be able to hack the kernel in any way. The storage can be worked upon since some companies opt for buying the complete Amazon S3 bucket to be used as a file system and store all types of stuff. Since Amazon EC2 is just used as a build and development environment, the other stuff can be kept somewhere else. Hosting real apps on an image might be a problem but at the moment, an average developer gets total control and will need SSH for accessibility.<br />
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There is a cost attached to the whole setup involved but it is quite cheap compared to hosting a live machine in a facility. A machine in the cloud on which you have total control is a rarity. To top it all, the low upfront cost and no expenditure on most infrastructure is a blessing. Since the pros outweigh the cons by a large margin, developers and companies have increasingly encouraged one another to opt for Amazon EC2 hosting and using it as a build and development environment. Also, the companies can now rely on the cloud as there is a backup of information here and one can access the cloud from anywhere one might wish.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-80432487719244845912012-09-03T21:56:00.002-07:002013-12-04T20:47:49.239-08:00Amazon EC2 and AWS Expanding their Reach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Within a few years, Amazon.com has evolved from traditional book publishing to a bigger goal of giving everybody access to unimaginable amount of computing power and resources. <b>Amazon EC2 Developer</b> is like the evergreen computational brain behind Amazon Web services. One can use multiple instances for getting the complex computational tasks done.</div>
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A start-up called the Climate Corporation performs more than 10,000 simulations daily about the weather conditions in the next two years for one million locations in US. The data is required to write about the root structure and soil porosity for farming conditions for the coming years.</div>
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There is a start up company called Cue which scans a whopping 500 million e-mails and many more Facebook updates of different personalities. It also scans through their corporate documents for understanding a person and create their biography. The company sends notifications about the person or related activity through notifications.</div>
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Many start-ups rely on cloud computing for completing the tasks which were impossible to fathom a decade ago. Both companies just own a few desktop computers and rely on the rented data storage services from Amazon, through AWS for a fraction of the cost.<br />
Thus, cloud computing has been around for years, but it is now powering all kinds of new businesses around the globe, quickly and with less capital. </div>
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Amazon's Elastic Load Balance allows multiple EC2 instances for dividing the entire traffic between them. No instances need to be burdened as EC2 can be easily scaled up and balance can be restored.</div>
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The Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is perfect as a hard drive while the Simple Storage Service (S3) on the other hand stores public facing data. S3 is mostly used by several companies for storing static content and it can be scaled up and down as needed too.</div>
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With the help of AWS, any developer can design simple to complex apps which can be further utilized on the cloud with the help of cost-effective Amazon services and its efficient platform. AWS performs immaculately well as a platform-as-a-service and usually developers and companies need to “pay as you go.” It has a licensing fee every month depending on usage with no upfront expenditure. No maintenance costs re levied too since Amazon is the one who is maintaining the overall system.</div>
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The virtual infrastructure takes minutes to piece together and simulate an infrastructure which is difficult in the real world. Virtualization saves on lots of money and is suitably elastic for scaling resources up and down depending on demand. </div>
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<b>AWS Development</b> and cloud computing provide users with freedom from huge investments since there are no charges regarding maintenance as indicated above. This opens new avenues of invention and innovation. The focus will be on business ideas and then on a particular infrastructure which is required for the project. The focus will always be on deliverables. Most businesses spend more than three-fourths of the time to build infrastructure and maintenance rather than focusing on core tasks. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-44380100030172474312012-08-27T22:04:00.000-07:002013-10-13T22:54:09.853-07:00Amazon EC2 Computing and its Development Services<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There is absolutely no shortage of cloud services and this is so true for enterprises too. Many cloud offerings support each other. There are incredible services like Drop box and Box.net which offer storage services for the consumer demographic while Azure has positioned itself with the enterprise. For individuals who need something in the cloud arena to work on, it's difficult and also extremely expensive to bring enterprise solutions on a personal level. Amazon's EC2, attempts to bridge the existing gap of technologies here.<br />
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EC2 is one of the perfect tools for developers in the cloud. One can start from scratch or get going with a large-scale development company. EC2 is perfect to satisfy any cloud storage need along with virtual environment need.<br />
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The appeal of Amazon EC2 basically lies in its payment structure since the user is expected to pay only for the storage that he or she has used and the time is taken into consideration. While other cloud services are dependent on fixed data allowances, Amazon serves to be a perfect fit for any developer who wants to upload its services on the cloud. Amazon has also incorporated a Free Usage Tier for the pricing scheme. This plan gives monthly limits and 750 hours of instance usage along with 30GB data transfer to and from the cloud.<br />
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As one increases the virtual machine's power and if needed, storage capability from Amazon EC2, the price rises to about $2.10 per hour. One can reserve a single instance for the year and the price differs from $227.50 for the smallest instance to $5,630.<br />
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No static IPs can be assigned to images which is an inhibitor when talking about Amazon EC2. The storage shortcoming is really critical for everybody since many prefer to use it as a build and development environment only. Hosting real apps might prove to be clunky here but for the time being, Amazon EC2 manages to get handled easily and remains in control mostly.<br />
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The cost involved is ok but if one wants a machine to be hosted and want to have total control for low cost, it is good to choose <b>Amazon Web Services</b>.<br />
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Here is what cloud computing provides developers:<br />
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This would mean that applications stored in the cloud will have much greater capacity for high intensity computation along with high volume of coding. Amazon has the magnificent ability to scale on demand and boost exponential growth.<br />
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The EC2 helps everyone to meet deadlines by introducing scalability as and when needed. There are many complementary services which come up with <b>AWS Development</b>. The backbones of cloud computing are virtual computer instances at the data center. It’s elastic in nature and the GUI tools for configuring and managing instances are fantastically easy to use. Command line options help in automating control over instances in software. Constituent tasks of your application can be run and each of the tasks will require a .exe file on your custom EC2 image.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-37932706432371980662012-08-16T00:03:00.001-07:002013-11-13T20:56:28.181-08:00Amazon Web Development Services — the Effective PaaS platform<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
With Amazon Web Development Services, complex applications can be developed for the enterprise on the cloud. The services can be intricately layered and reliably accessed using the cost-effective services provided by Amazon.<br />
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Amazon Web Services is essentially used as a platform-as-a-service mode. One just has to pay according to the usage which also means that small and mid-size organizations do not have to spend money upfront on the infrastructure. There is absolutely no maintenance or additional costs to deal with as the maintenance and other operations are carried out by Amazon itself.<br />
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The virtual infrastructure might take weeks together for companies to set up in the real world. The infrastructure here is extremely elastic, flexible and scalable since all the services. This sort of setup is prevalent in many companies who are actually using virtual resources in the testing phase of a product.<br />
Virtual infrastructure helps in creating wonderful opportunities and makes them open for innovation which means that you can always focus on your core business instead of worrying about infrastructure and the servers. Most organizations tend to focus more than 70 percent of the time in building and maintaining servers and IT infrastructure instead of doing the tasks. The AWS plays the part here in taking up the responsibility of maintaining the servers while making it available for innumerable companies at the cost of measly dollars per month. <br />
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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is efficient in meeting the storage needs while Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is perfect to scale your computing resources as and when required. Amazon SimpleDB (SDB) on the other hand is an indexed storage which processes datasets quickly and accurately.<br />
The health status of Amazon’s web services is published publicly on a dashboard which is continuously updated. The standards-based SOAP and REST interfaces are used for interaction with the services. Various command-line tools are used for computer resource management.<br />
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AWS offers incredible benefits and its main ability lies in converting capital expenses into variable costs with a lucrative business model. <b>AWS Development</b> has the ability to power thousands of businesses with its data centers located all over the world.<br />
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Amazon has a huge cloud infrastructure which effectively places your created application accessible to the world and even scaled up quickly. The development platform or programming model can be according to one’s preference and since it is secure and safe with a number of certifications related to security. The AWS systems have multiple layers of security for the best data security on the cloud. It also has additional facilities like application hosting which depends on its infrastructure which can upload anything you have created. <br />
The huge storage that AWS offers is scalable for critical content and resources including your primary data and backup with its inexpensive data storage services. The cloud platform can easily disseminate information across the world but only through a highly secured gateway and accessibility authentication. <br />
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AWS helps in securing maximum advantage from different scalable solutions right from enterprise software to databases while also taking care of the critical nature of information that it possesses and the ease of use for an average business user.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-85167833073984064702012-07-27T03:18:00.002-07:002013-10-13T22:54:30.112-07:00The Amazon Web Services Success and the Future Trends<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Amazon Web Services</b> are a comprehensive set of services which make use of the Amazon’s ready-to-use computing infrastructure. AWS was built and refined in recent years and now provides several Web services for its customers while also providing storage, computing, and datasets along with messaging capabilities.<br />
The user can architect complex enterprise applications by having layers on the web services provided by Amazon. The Web services are always available for use.<br />
By leveraging AWS and its storage services, Smug Mug, which is an online photo storage application benefited from cost savings on service and storage of around $1 million. The company uses EC2 computing resources heavily too. Additionally, 37Signals which is a very popular company and the maker of popular online project-management software Base camp utilizes Amazon S3 for storing its incredible data. Even the NYTimes used the EC2 for processing several TBs of archival data within three days. Animosity is another beneficiary of Amazon services. It is an online presentation video generator which needs immense computing power for video processing and has managed a surge in its traffic by scaling its EC2 storage resources. It handled more than 3,500 virtual instances which were running at the same time.<br />
AWS revolves around the concept of “You pay as you go”, and with absolutely no need for upfront expenditures and no maintenance costs. The hardware is bought, maintained and serviced by Amazon. <br />
With the virtual infrastructure, any system can be quickly pieced together which otherwise would take many weeks in a real-world IT shop. Also, the infrastructure is truly elastic and highly scalable based on the requirements. <br />
The user needs to break shackles of big infrastructure investment so that it concentrates on innovation. One can focus on business ideas instead of worrying about storage space and the number of servers once has got. Businesses spend about 70 percent of the time in creating a robust infrastructure but only 30 percent of their time is devoted to ideas which actually power businesses. Amazon is the one who wants to worry about hardware and infrastructure and how it can be made available to you on a daily basis.<br />
The central elements provide the most common building blocks which are required in different applications. One can utilize storage facilities provided by Amazon for storing files, documents, or backups. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is highly scalable, reliable and also available at reasonable rates.<br />
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can scale up resources based on client demands and new server instances can be provisioned quite easily. Amazon Simple Db (SDB) also helps users with scalable, indexed, storage which requires zero maintenance.<br />
All Amazon services can be mixed and matched according to the needs. Entrepreneurs are required to build scalable and reliable applications by optimum utility of virtual infrastructure which does not cost much compared to traditional application-hosting platforms which face continuous servicing fluctuations. <br />
<b>Amazon Web Services</b> provides two levels of support: free forum-based support and paid support packages. Amazon regularly publishes the status of its Web services which is updated publicly. Amazon also provides standards-based SOAP and REST interfaces for interaction with web services.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-7494369954023899052012-07-16T23:02:00.001-07:002013-10-13T22:55:00.382-07:00Amazon EC2 and Rackspace: The Similarities and Differences<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Amazon EC2 development</b> is an integral part of its web services arsenal. There are many other services for storage and payments. EC2 is an acronym of “elastic compute cloud.” It is a server which helps one to easily run and manage many instances and can offer a scalable platform. One can even outsource resource-intensive tasks and use it as a server farm.</div>
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There are three different sizes which are available and can prove to be more powerful than any other server. Unless there is video processing involved, the default small instance has the capacity of 1.7GB of RAM which works well with most uses. One can even get a server farm with 15GB of RAM if required too.</div>
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EC2 has been around and its major problems have been related to data persistence on instances. One can has to carefully build applications around the EC2 architecture for the app to work flawlessly. A crashed instance can be run again and one might lose data since a new IP is allotted which might increase DNS issues. The latest elastic IP feature though lets the user to assign a static IP address to the instances as required.</div>
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Many considerations need to be made for solving the data persistence issue. There are many services which have stable systems on top of EC2 like WeoCeo, Scalr and RightScale. </div>
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In terms of price, it is similar for both although it is after some time that one realizes that the pricing bit is not all similar as it looks. Rackspace users have multiple options for payment starting 1.5 cents an hour while Amazon EC2 does not offer many options for machine sizes. There are Amazon instances which are extremely big or too small while there is a middle option for everything in Rackspace. </div>
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A 100 Gb disk in Amazon EC2 (EBS volume) with backup with Amazon charges you for the complete 100 Gb even though the user might be using only 50 Gb. Rackspace takes into account space that is occupied and also does not charge a thing from its customers for i/o operations.</div>
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Performance factor is never much of an issue with cloud computing services since resources can be scaled up and down. But performance on the basis of costing is a different issue. When similar performance was achieved in both <b>Amazon Web Services</b> and Rackspace instances, anybody would realize that users will be saving 30% of their money with Rackspace. </div>
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Amazon EC2 is not at all simple in any way since it offers many different possibilities for creating instances Though, once the user gets the hang of it, it is easy. It takes ample amount of time to get everything in place which is not what everybody wants.Rackspace on the other hand is extremely easy to learn and one can get it up and running within hours. </div>
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The Cloud watch service in Amazon is extremely powerful and efficient. But in Rackspace, the monitoring tool is extremely limited. Also, Amazon offers more broad computing services than Rackspace. Additionally, EC2 works without interruptions most of the time, but with Rackspace, the service is astoundingly good. As per some analysts Rackspace holds an edge over Amazon. But not everyone agrees to it though.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-41591471019610062742012-07-02T02:21:00.001-07:002013-10-13T22:55:27.616-07:00Amazon Cloud computing and the career of a AWS developer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With AWS, one can architect simple to complex applications at the enterprise level and then even layer them on cost-effective Amazon services and its platform. <b>Amazon Web Services</b> is platform-as-a-service format since one has to “pay as you go: with a licensing fee every month based on usage. The best part about AWS is that there is no upfront expenditure. Additionally, there are no maintenance costs since Amazon has taken up the maintenance and servicing of the overall system.</div>
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The virtual infrastructure is what drives the web world since it takes minutes to piece together an infrastructure virtually which might take months together in the real world. Virtualization saves on money and since it is elastic one can even scale the resources up and down as per the growing or lessening demand. The elastic computing is to use all over the world.</div>
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Additionally, AWS and cloud computing gives users freedom from huge investments, which are usually done upfront. There are no charges related to maintenance which opens new avenues of invention and innovation. The focus would rather rest on business ideas rather than worrying about the number of that are being used or even if a particular infrastructure would suffice the requirements of a project. The focus would only rest on the deliverable since the resources are scalable. Most businesses spend more than 70 percent of their time to build infrastructure and then spend on its maintenance. Only 30 percent of their time is on doing what is important: the core tasks. Amazon is the one who worries about how the infrastructure has to be maintained and to make them available.</div>
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There is a need for engineers related to Amazon EC2 and they need to be good enough to build massively scalable network-oriented software for the service. Careers at Amazon EC2 involve working with engineers who are adept in it while always helping out in enhancing the systems’ availability and scalability. Demand is high for developers who are experts and experienced enough working with C++, and other OOP languages. Unique pricing models are needed so that there is demand in the market related to the products in the cloud computing arena. Empowering developers from different areas is one of the main tasks of <b>Amazon Web Services developers</b> and engineers. They are also required to migrate their applications to the new pricing models. </div>
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Scalability is one of the most important factors in the cloud computing market and the engineers are required with huge practical experience for the creation of immensely large distributed systems. Web-based applications development experience will come in handy here. </div>
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Database Administrators are the ones who are usually assigned the tasks related to the design, implementation, scaling of databases. The concepts should be clear enough to them and they should be able to work independently too. A calm and composed demeanor would go a long way for their careers.</div>
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Product Managers are required to be conversant with every step of the product life cycle and good enough with market evaluation and creation of pricing structures. They manage marketing collateral directly and are responsible for publicity ventures during product launches.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-87296594208730631182012-06-20T03:04:00.000-07:002013-10-13T22:55:58.780-07:00AWS Developers are in Huge Demand!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With AWS, developers can create complex applications for meeting different needs of the enterprise. <b>AWS developers </b>are required to provide reliable and cost-effective services on the Amazon layer. </div>
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The best part about AWS is that it can be used as a platform-as-a-service and is available on a pay-as –you-go since it only depends on usage. This means that there is no need for upfront expenditures. There is absolutely no maintenance costs involved since the overall hardware and systems are maintained and serviced by Amazon.</div>
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The virtual infrastructure is quite necessary in today’s world since it saves on costs and future expenditure. An infrastructure can put on within some time and it is always ready to take up tests. If a real infrastructure was set up to set up a real-world IT shop, it would have been humungous to put it all together. A virtual infrastructure in AWS is elastic and can be scaled up and down based on demand. Companies are using the concept of elastic computing for use.</div>
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Amazon EC2 resembles the computational brain behind AWS. Most developers can utilize multiple instances for supporting complex computational tasks. Multiple instances can be configured and they can be of several sizes since micro instances take up 613 MB of RAM while the biggest ones occupy 15GB of RAM. </div>
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Finally, EC2 instances can also be deployed in diverse and various geographic locations where Amazon's data centers are located originally. The deployment can also be done in various availability zones or even in multiple areas. Load balancing can be achieved by deploying the system in more than one area. </div>
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AWS offers freedom from big infrastructure investment and also lessens the cost involved along with other resources. The maintenance part opens up avenues for innovating new things without having unnecessary overheads. One can focus on particular core business ideas without having to worry about the number of servers or the overall infrastructure like disk space etc. Amazon estimates presume that building and maintaining infrastructures takes up more than 70% time while the rest of the 30 percent is allocated to power ideas. Amazon takes up worry of infrastructure without having you to concentrate on the mundane aspects and actually concentrating on bringing creative ideas to life.</div>
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Entrepreneurs are capable of creating scalable and reliable applications by using virtual setup provided by the AWS which does not cost much upfront or even in the future. <b>Amazon Web Services</b> is much better than traditional application-hosting platforms since the latter use huge server farms for maintenance and for redressing spikes. The redundancy levels are usually high too.</div>
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Amazon provides two levels of service including free forum-based support and paid support packages. The company publishes the health status of its Web services regularly and all issues are also listed down for public access. During any service outage, the system reports every half an hour before the issue is resolved. Amazon even provides standards-based SOAP interfaces for interacting with web services. Command-line tools can be made available for EC2 management. The REST interface is simple to use too!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-71384442135392081922012-06-11T04:22:00.000-07:002013-10-13T22:56:40.277-07:00Amazon Web Services, its Components and Benefits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The cloud is ruling the IT world today and even if you prefer Dropbox or Sherlock, it is part of the cloud which is expanding all frontiers. <b>Amazon Web Services</b><span id="goog_166876825"></span><span id="goog_166876826"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a> (AWS) is one of the most popular cloud computing platforms which have increasingly grown in popularity in recent times. Here are some of the important parts of Amazon Cloud Services.</div>
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Amazon EC2 is like the computational brain behind AWS and its virtual machines. Developers can make use of multiple instances for handling complex computational tasks. </div>
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Instances can be configured in any of the operating systems and come in different sizes where micro instances come with 613 MB of RAM while the large ones grab 15GB of RAM. </div>
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Finally, EC2 instances can be deployed in different geographic locations of Amazon's data centers. They can also be deployed in availability zones or even in multiple regions if there is a need for increased redundancy and reduced latency. One might also do it for the purpose of load balancing. </div>
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Amazon's Elastic Load Balance allows for the creation of multiple EC2 instances and the overall traffic to be distributed between them. No instances need to be burdened when EC2 can scale up and more instances can be added to restore balance.</div>
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The EBS can be likened to a hard drive in your computer where every instance can be filled with files and applications. Multiple EBS volumes can be attached to an EC2 instance. The only factor is that they should be in the same availability zone as that of the instance.</div>
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Unlike EBS volumes, Amazon's Simple Storage Service stores public facing data. S3 is often used for storing static content and anything can be uploaded there. Files are referred to as objects once uploaded and stored in places called buckets. S3 storage is scalable according to business needs.</div>
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The above components make up the core features of Amazon Web Services but there are more components involved including DynamoDB, Route53, Elastic Beanstalk and many others.</div>
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Amazon Web Services is one of the most cost-effective ways to deliver application to the cloud and in turn to your customers and clients. The best part is that you just have to pay what you use with no expenses and commitments whatsoever. </div>
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The <b>Amazon Web Services</b> (AWS) Integration services are offered by many distinguished providers who take up outsourcing projects for delivering cost effective and durable flexible hosting solutions. </div>
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The above features prove that AWS can fulfill the needs of cloud computing to varied and diverse industrial sectors.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Amazon Cloud Computing</span> offers web services like <em><span style="font-style: normal;">cloud computing</span></em> and cloud storage service which it competes with bigger services into storage area. This Platform is most of uses with a peep into the emerging paradigm of <span style="font-weight: normal;">cloud computing</span> from the perspective of the leading <span style="font-weight: normal;">Cloud services</span>. It will enable you to plan migration efforts from enterprise software to ones operating from the cloud. Cloud server is way to introduce with real clouds, this use of this app has been adopted from the use of cloud services when representing the internet in drawings and charts. <b>Amazon Cloud Computing</b> involves delivering infrastructure, software, and platforms via the internet to various users. The services provided here are applications, storage, hosting and much more.</div>
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<b>Cloud Computing Companies</b> are most preferable now a days because most of company given this services and “The Cloud” is incredible potential for growth held by companies that specialize in this revolutionary technology. cloud computing has been raised the lots application for Cloud-powered apps, and is well aligned with <span style="font-weight: normal;">Amazon Cloud Computing</span><b> </b>strategy more useable with server. Amazon web services will be easy to maintain and update. Because there wouldn’t be an stored at storage area, there would be very few application stored it. Everything would be updated on the cloud, so the user wouldn’t have to worry about software upgrades or changes.</div>
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With Amazon cloud computing, a business need lots of application to storing area. Because of growing demand, a lot of businesses over invest in Information Technology which eventually increases expenses and uncertainties of maintenance. Cloud computing is reduce the cost of maintenance on on-premise IT systems thereby assuming the uncertainties and costs of IT support, security, backups, and hardware.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077377387224798274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310853100605799465.post-85569517990832196292012-01-02T05:14:00.000-08:002013-12-04T20:46:42.109-08:00Amazon Web Services Latest Cloud Computing Service<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Amazon is also know as cloud computing wave. <b>Amazon Web Services (AWS)</b> - Robust, Scalable and Affordable infrastructure for cloud computing. A new way of reuse/integrate third party software or legacy system and No matter where the software is, what platform it residents. Mostly very popular content and frameworks in the central Amazon Web Services cloud, that users will find that web pages load more quickly than result very quickly to direct link. Public cloud like Amazon Web Services is completely changed on way look of in structure and also serve to user want to lots of utility on their products.</div>
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Amazon is recognized lots of limitations their core business and adopted a bold and clear vision and which they executed with aplomb. Then amazon launches, Amazon Web Services and this web services must be help opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure. There are several services and environment build an enterprise application migration strategy for any organization. A successful migration largely depends this basic way to modify the complexity of the application architecture, coupled your application and effort you are application willing to put into migration.</div>
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Amazon is delivers a suite of tools that provide an inexpensive and scalable infrastructure as a service to company who need reliable computing services and storage of their secure database. It is designed to work directly with their <b>Amazon Web Services</b> like Simple Storage Service (S3) which allows users to store and retrieve unlimited data, paying for only the resources that are used.</div>
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