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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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