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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

TechEmpower

One particularly interesting anomaly is the dominance of Windows paired with Mongo on EC2 in the Updates test. The performance is only slightly lower than the same pairing on i7, where in most cases our i7s (2600K workstations, to be precise) and EC2 (m1.large) large) instances differ by a factor of seven or more.

Framework 507
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CrowdStrike Extends To AWS

socalTECH

According to CrowdStrike, its new Falcon for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is designed to help secure cloud workloads, and is available through Amazon's AWS Marketplace. The new service also supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

socalTECH

OpenStack is the set of open-source software designed to allow any hosting firm to offer up similar services to Amazon EC2; the OpenStack project was originally based on technology developed by Rackspace and has since spread widely to other ISPs.

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SmartSound Extends Online Soundtrack Service

socalTECH

SmartSound's software allows anyone producing a video or production to create custom designed music tracks in different genres, and to use those royalty free. The firm--which made its mark originally on the PC with its title Sonicfire Pro--now also offers an online version of the software which runs on Amazon EC2 via the cloud.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. In fact, his point is that the application is really meta-data.

Platform 150
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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Why would we commit hundreds of thousands to EMC before we knew whether we had a big business? Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2. How we designed the tests.

Framework 560