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Understanding the Amazon EBS IO Block Size and its Performance Impacts

The IOPS rate you get usually depends on the I/O size of your applications’ reads and writes. It is very important to know the I/O size your application...

0 replies - 2094 views - 04/20/13 by Harish Ganesan in Articles

When Amazon EBS-Optimized Instances Make Sense

The performance of a block storage device is commonly measured and quoted in a unit called IOPS, short for Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS). To...

0 replies - 2556 views - 04/19/13 by Harish Ganesan in Articles

Deep Dive into Amazon ElastiCache

Connection Overheads Amazon ElastiCache node (MemCached engine) uses a connection buffer per TCP connection to read/write data out over the network. This is...

0 replies - 572 views - 04/03/13 by Harish Ganesan in Articles

How to Move Servers Between AWS Accounts

This is a short post about how to move your (EC2) server from one account to another. I got in this situation a few ago and wanted to move our WordPress server...

0 replies - 2102 views - 03/20/13 by Pascal Alma in Articles

Load Balancing with Amazon Elastic Load Balancer

In the previous posts I set up a WordPress server by using several Amazon’s services. In this post I add the next AWS feature, the Elastic Load Balancer....

0 replies - 3106 views - 01/22/13 by Pascal Alma in Articles

Tutorial: Apache Pig With Amazon Elastic MapReduce - Part 1

Amazon Web Services presents this five-part tutorial on using Apache Pig with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, showing you how to create a simple log-parsing app:

0 replies - 1511 views - 12/19/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

HP Discover Europe and the Viability of HP’s Cloud Play

I’m heading to Europe for HP’s Discover event and the conference has me thinking about the last Discover event I attended in Las Vegas earlier his year and...

0 replies - 2371 views - 11/29/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Amazon Web Services for Java Developers

For Java enterprise professionals, this webinar offers some insight into the popular cloud infrastrucre services.Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers IT...

0 replies - 3289 views - 07/16/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Daily Dose: Amazon Reveals New In-Memory Caching System "ElastiCache"

Amazon's new ElastiCache web service provides a fast, managed, in-memory caching system that is "protocol compliant with MemCached". The new service...

0 replies - 18701 views - 08/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Microsoft's Daytona brings MapReduce to Windows Azure

MapReduce, Google's framework for scaling large amounts of data across computers, has been ported to Windows Azure by Microsoft. The project, code-named...

0 replies - 19137 views - 07/17/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: LucidWorks Enterprise 1.8 Crawls Shared Files

LucidWorks Enterprise released its new version 1.8 featuring the addition of new crawl and security functionality. The platform can now crawl and index files...

0 replies - 20815 views - 07/14/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Amazon Web Services To Offer Free Data Transfers July 1

Effective tomorrow (July 1), Amazon will stop charging for data transfers into Amazon Web Service-based cloud environments. Amazon previously charged ten cents...

0 replies - 16634 views - 06/30/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Adobe Launches ColdFusion 9 into the Cloud

Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 are available today along with a private beta of the new ColdFusion in the Cloud that will run in the...

0 replies - 11376 views - 10/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News