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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. All about end-user requests.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. They were in manufacturing, or a healthcare organization, and it was very obvious that most enterprises were struggling to run large scale infrastructure at scale, with efficiency. There is an advantage and disadvantage to that.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Twitter restricts each post to 140 characters so users often share links with other people – one of the most important features of Twitter. provides you.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

TenHands’ vision is to enable every person and organization to collaborate more effectively and get more done together anywhere without boundaries. use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. When was it launched?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). But what is magic about Twitter is that it is real time. Social Networking (like the web) Will Split Into Layers: SimpleGeo, PlaceIQ. provides you.