
If you deal with large databases, you will probably need more than the provisioned storage of the default Amazon AMI (8GB).
The following 10 steps guide will...
0 replies - 2604 views - 07/18/12 by Moshe Kaplan in Articles

The following article was originally written by Ming Lee over at the blog, A Cloudy Place. In this article I’m going to highlight eight common-sense...
0 replies - 3464 views - 07/17/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a service in the AWS portfolio that can
be used for data processing and analytics on vast amounts of data. It is
based on...
0 replies - 3154 views - 07/16/12 by Istvan Szegedi in Articles

So far we covered server-side/cloud components – how to process data
with MapReduce running in the cloud or on our own Hadoop cluster. This
time it is...
0 replies - 3273 views - 07/16/12 by Istvan Szegedi in Articles

As a customer and fan of Amazon, I've been watching the company grow and
develop for a while. Based on my experiences and observations, I've
come up...
0 replies - 3741 views - 07/14/12 by Eric Daugherty in Articles

Route 53 is the scalable DNS service from AWS. It’s fairly simple and
straightforward, and Amazon provides excellent documentation with
detailed...
0 replies - 7449 views - 07/01/12 by Shameer Cee in Articles

My Big Data in the Cloud article for Visual Studio Magazine’s
July 2012 issue asserts “Microsoft has cooked up a feast of value-added
big data cloud...
3 replies - 6907 views - 06/28/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

This is your last chance to sign up for the Amazon Web Services for Java Developers course that I will be teaching for the University of California, Irvine...
0 replies - 1964 views - 06/25/12 by Craig Dickson in Articles

In April 2011, when Amazon’s cloud s east region failed. I posted the first chapter of theAmazon Cloud Outage Conspiracy – it was already very clear that...
0 replies - 3794 views - 06/21/12 by Ofir Nachmani in Articles

With the Reload Button, Everyone is a Network Admin
Thanks to the reload button, partial network failures are easily
mitigated when browsing on a desktop....
0 replies - 3719 views - 06/12/12 by Mehdi Daoudi in Articles

This half-hour webinar from UC Irvine suggests that AWS offers the perfect infrastructure to Java developers looking to save money with infinite scalability of...
1 replies - 6974 views - 06/11/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

I will be giving a free 1-hour Webinar this coming Thursday (June
7th) to introduce a brand new course that I will be teaching at the
University of...
3 replies - 2505 views - 06/03/12 by Craig Dickson in Articles

Background Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) feature with an Announcing Amazon Elastic MapReduce post by Jeff Barr on April 2,...
1 replies - 4224 views - 05/31/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

DZone's Cloud Zone has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last couple of months, so we want to gauge the community's interest in the various and sundry...
3 replies - 2708 views - 05/28/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

In part I of this blog post, we started comparing Windows Azure Blob
Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). We covered basic
concepts and compared...
0 replies - 3891 views - 05/15/12 by Gaurav Mantri in Articles