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Amazon Web Services(AWS) Finally Offers Persistent Storage(Elastic Block Store)
Submitted by kai on Thu, 2008-08-21 23:29. ::
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:
Clearly, RightScale has been testing EBS for quite a while prior ASW announced persistent storage support back in Apri.
MySql Storage Engine for Amazon S3
Submitted by kai on Sun, 2007-11-18 20:55. ::
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.
Amzon S3 & Other Storage as A Service Providers
Submitted by kai on Mon, 2007-10-29 22:01. ::
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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