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Back in Nov. 2008, I attended the informative Eucalyptus talk in the Silicon Valley cloud computing group meetup.

Eucalyptus, the academic project from Professor Rich Wolski at UC Santa Babara, is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to Eucalyptus is compatible with Amazon's EC2 and S3 interfaces.

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I finally had a chance to play with Heroku cause I wanted to quickly try out OneBody - open source Ruby on Rails based social network.

I followed the instruction to create my app. What's missing there is that you'd need to generate public/private key before calling 'heroku create urapp'. It's as simple as issuing 'ssh-keygen -t rsa' for Linux. see GitHub docs for more information.

I also tried to use the import interface at Heroku to import OneBody, but it always timed out. Heroku should have provided a simple import command via Heroku gem to create a new application through importing.

Tags: aws ec2 vps heroku ruby_on_rails deployment

Today, Amazon announces Elastic Block Store(EBS). This is the final missing piece in their cloud computing offering.

RightScale wrote two very good blogs explaining EBS:

• Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained
• Why Amazon’s Elastic Block Store Matters

Clearly, RightScale has been testing EBS for quite a while prior ASW announced persistent storage support back in Apri.

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On Scribd, I found the following presentation on using Amazon S3 as a storage medium for MySQL 5.1. Exciting stuff as S3 can act as a infinite disk. If it works out, it's going to be very valuable for MySQL running on EC2 as file system storage on a EC2 instance is gone once the instance goes down.

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Amazon S3 has been out for a while. And the competition is heating up in the storage as a service market.

S3 in general:

• 99.9% service level guarrantee (only have had SLA recently since Oct. 8th, 2007)
• no worry of hardware failure, data redundancy
• one and only one master secret key. I would like to be able to create separate secret key for different applications so if one application got compromised, other applications won't be compromised
• can't control bandwidth overage. Can be a real problem if your competitors are leeching your S3 bandwidth that you pay for every bit

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