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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. MORE
The firms said the integrated stack allows companies to create their own version of Rackspace or Amazon EC2 within their own companies. Santa Barbara-based Eucaplytus Systems , the cloud management software firm backed by New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, said earlier this week that it has linked up with newScale and rPath on a new private cloud platform. MORE
The new software connects into Amazon AWS, and its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), SQS (Simple Queue Service), and S3 (Simple Storage Service) to coordinate grid processing. Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. MORE
Thursday, October 9, 2008 -- Amazon EC2 Beginners Workshop. San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group. See [link] (more MORE
Los Angeles-based cloud graphics company OTOY , a developer of cloud-based, game rendering engines, said Thursday that it will launch its Brigade path tracing and rendering technology to Amazon EC2. MORE
RightScale said it will support creating, managing, and automating IBM DB2 Express-C on such services as Amazon EC2. RightScale devleops products which help in deploying applications across Amazon EC2 and other cloud computing environments. Santa Barbara-based cloud computing management software firm RightScale is linking its products into IBM DB2, one of the major enterprise database software packages, the firm said today. MORE
We''ve included Windows on EC2 results as a separate set of data within the results view but caution that the results should be considered preliminary. Prior to installing the SSD, the i7 hardware with traditional magnetic disks was only two to three times quicker than the EC2 instances. MORE
One particularly interesting anomaly is the dominance of Windows paired with Mongo on EC2 in the Updates test. It''s possible the Windows EC2 instance is running on a newer host than the Linux EC2 instance, but both are classified as m1.large. MORE
At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. MORE
For us, we are currently deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and that essentially allows us to horizontally scale in the way that we need to. MORE
At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. This version is the shorter, ADHD version. MORE
Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. MORE
you''ll be able to see the other test types on Peak''s hardware alongside our i7 workstations and the EC2 instances we''ve tested in all previous rounds. As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. Five months ago, Google talked about load-balancing to achieve 1 million requests per second. MORE
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. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue CloudI'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? MORE
IDrive said its IDrive Vault software now uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which helps businesses who may be required by law to store their data in the same region they conduct business in. Los Angeles-based online cloud backup provider IDrive said on Friday that it has connected its cloud-based, backup software to Amazon Web Services. MORE
I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks. MORE
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. Los Angeles-based web and cloud hosting provider DreamHost looks to be readying its OpenStack cloud offering, DreamCompute, for wider consumption, after showing off the service at the OpenStack Summit in Portland last week. MORE
We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. Consumers have dozens of choices if they want to share their files with others on the Internet, however, if you're a corporate user, there just aren't the same number of options. MORE
The new Eucalptus software allows enterprise customers to create and manage their own cloud using those hypervisors; the Eucalyptus cloud also supports the Amazon Web Services API, so those companies can run their own, private cloud in-house with existing software built for Amazon EC2. MORE
MongoLab develops a cloud-based version of the MongoDB database software, which runs on Amazon EC2 and Rackspace. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has backed a provider of cloud-based databases, MongoLab , in its Series A funding. MongoLab said it has raised $3M in a Series A funding led by The Foundry Group, and including Baseline Ventures, GRP Partners, Freestyle Capital and Bullet Time Ventures. The lead investor on GRP's investment in MongoLab was not disclosed. MORE
At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. MORE
The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility. This would seem to be a good case for us to separate off matching and making that a more scalable operation on EC2. I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. MORE
Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , which operates a software service to help companies communicate with investors, is one of the firms caught by the widespread Amazon EC2 downtime today. Many web services use Amazon's EC2 software to offload processing of operations on their web sites. CapLinked said in its blog that its site is temporarily unavailable due to Amazon's hosting service issues. MORE
On Tuesday of this week, we kicked off a pair of EC2 instances and a pair of our i7 workstations to produce updated data. We dive right in with the EC2 JSON test results, but please read to the end where we include important notes about what has changed since last week. MORE
The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. MORE
We retired our in-house i7-2600K hardware environment for Round 10, and we changed our Amazon EC2 environment to c3.large instances. Go remains a strong performer in the smaller-server scenario as demonstrated by our EC2 c3.large environment. MORE
The software now supports Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Windows 7, along with VMware, Xen, and Amazon EC2 cloud computing. Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , which develops open source, cloud management software, said today that it has launched the latest version of its Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) software with support for Windows virtual machines. MORE
Furthermore, due to the modestly rushed nature (at least on our side) of Round 12, we elected to not capture Amazon EC2 results for this Round. Round 12 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! A race against the clock. MORE
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Onion , a C platform contributed by Coralbits is now included in the EC2 JSON serialization test and the results are extremely impressive, clocking in over 52,000 JSON responses per second. MORE
RightScale's software helps companies deploy servers into cloud computing clusters such as Amazon EC2. Santa Barbara-based RightScale , a firm which develops cloud computing management software, has linked its products with New Relic, a developer of application performance management software, the firms said this week. RightScale said that its Cloud Computing Management Platform can be used with New Relic's RPM software. MORE
Mobicip uses Amazon.com's EC2 to power its service. Thousand Oaks-based Mobicip , a developer of web filtering products for parents, disclosed this morning that the firm has rolled out a new product targeted at parents of children with iPhones, the iPod Touch, and Netbooks. MORE
They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. MORE
What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. MORE
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. Northridge-based SmartSound Software , which develops an online software as well as PC-based software for creating royalty free soundtracks, said earlier this week that it has extended its service to allow users to customize and create tracks indefinitely, once purchased from the company. MORE
The new service also supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). CrowdStrike , the developer of endpoint protection software and cybersecurity tools with a big presence in Orange County, is extending its software to Amazon Web Services, the company said today. MORE
use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. What is TenHands and why the name? MORE
Openresty takes the lead for multiple queries on EC2. We''ve previously posted two rounds of results of benchmarking many web application platforms and frameworks. The community''s response remains strong! We have really enjoyed your comments, advice, questions, criticism, and pull requests. MORE
The firm said the new product allows users to use Amazon's EC2 cloud service to deliver enterprise applications over the public cloud. Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , which develops software for managing public and private cloud computing infrastructure, said this week that it has launched a new product called mCloud On-Demand. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
On EC2, the Netty and Vert.x The maximum query and update performance for Mongo on EC2 is substantially higher than MySQL. Merry Christmas web framework performance aficionados! MORE
EC2 Related Topics socalTECH
MARCH 14, 2014
Los Angeles-based cloud graphics company OTOY , a developer of cloud-based, game rendering engines, said Thursday that it will launch its Brigade path tracing and rendering technology to Amazon EC2.
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 9, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008 -- Amazon EC2 Beginners Workshop. San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group. See [link] (more
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TechEmpower
APRIL 5, 2013
On Tuesday of this week, we kicked off a pair of EC2 instances and a pair of our i7 workstations to produce updated data. We dive right in with the EC2 JSON test results, but please read to the end where we include important notes about what has changed since last week.
TechEmpower
MARCH 28, 2013
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.
TechEmpower
APRIL 30, 2013
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.
TechEmpower
OCTOBER 31, 2013
One particularly interesting anomaly is the dominance of Windows paired with Mongo on EC2 in the Updates test. It''s possible the Windows EC2 instance is running on a newer host than the Linux EC2 instance, but both are classified as m1.large.
TechEmpower
MAY 17, 2013
We''ve included Windows on EC2 results as a separate set of data within the results view but caution that the results should be considered preliminary. Prior to installing the SSD, the i7 hardware with traditional magnetic disks was only two to three times quicker than the EC2 instances.
TechEmpower
DECEMBER 17, 2013
On EC2, the Netty and Vert.x The maximum query and update performance for Mongo on EC2 is substantially higher than MySQL. Merry Christmas web framework performance aficionados!
TechEmpower
MAY 2, 2013
Onion , a C platform contributed by Coralbits is now included in the EC2 JSON serialization test and the results are extremely impressive, clocking in over 52,000 JSON responses per second.
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Furthermore, due to the modestly rushed nature (at least on our side) of Round 12, we elected to not capture Amazon EC2 results for this Round. Round 12 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! A race against the clock.
TechEmpower
APRIL 22, 2013
Openresty takes the lead for multiple queries on EC2. We''ve previously posted two rounds of results of benchmarking many web application platforms and frameworks. The community''s response remains strong! We have really enjoyed your comments, advice, questions, criticism, and pull requests.
TechEmpower
JULY 2, 2013
The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2.
TechEmpower
MARCH 4, 2014
you''ll be able to see the other test types on Peak''s hardware alongside our i7 workstations and the EC2 instances we''ve tested in all previous rounds. As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. Five months ago, Google talked about load-balancing to achieve 1 million requests per second.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
The new service also supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). CrowdStrike , the developer of endpoint protection software and cybersecurity tools with a big presence in Orange County, is extending its software to Amazon Web Services, the company said today.
socalTECH
APRIL 21, 2011
Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , which operates a software service to help companies communicate with investors, is one of the firms caught by the widespread Amazon EC2 downtime today. Many web services use Amazon's EC2 software to offload processing of operations on their web sites. CapLinked said in its blog that its site is temporarily unavailable due to Amazon's hosting service issues.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
IDrive said its IDrive Vault software now uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which helps businesses who may be required by law to store their data in the same region they conduct business in. Los Angeles-based online cloud backup provider IDrive said on Friday that it has connected its cloud-based, backup software to Amazon Web Services.
socalTECH
JULY 22, 2009
RightScale said it will support creating, managing, and automating IBM DB2 Express-C on such services as Amazon EC2. RightScale devleops products which help in deploying applications across Amazon EC2 and other cloud computing environments. Santa Barbara-based cloud computing management software firm RightScale is linking its products into IBM DB2, one of the major enterprise database software packages, the firm said today.
socalTECH
MAY 18, 2011
MongoLab develops a cloud-based version of the MongoDB database software, which runs on Amazon EC2 and Rackspace. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has backed a provider of cloud-based databases, MongoLab , in its Series A funding. MongoLab said it has raised $3M in a Series A funding led by The Foundry Group, and including Baseline Ventures, GRP Partners, Freestyle Capital and Bullet Time Ventures. The lead investor on GRP's investment in MongoLab was not disclosed.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 28, 2013
I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 23, 2007
The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility. This would seem to be a good case for us to separate off matching and making that a more scalable operation on EC2. I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today.
socalTECH
JUNE 15, 2009
Mobicip uses Amazon.com's EC2 to power its service. Thousand Oaks-based Mobicip , a developer of web filtering products for parents, disclosed this morning that the firm has rolled out a new product targeted at parents of children with iPhones, the iPod Touch, and Netbooks.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
RightScale's software helps companies deploy servers into cloud computing clusters such as Amazon EC2. Santa Barbara-based RightScale , a firm which develops cloud computing management software, has linked its products with New Relic, a developer of application performance management software, the firms said this week. RightScale said that its Cloud Computing Management Platform can be used with New Relic's RPM software.
socalTECH
APRIL 24, 2013
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. Los Angeles-based web and cloud hosting provider DreamHost looks to be readying its OpenStack cloud offering, DreamCompute, for wider consumption, after showing off the service at the OpenStack Summit in Portland last week.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
The firm said the new product allows users to use Amazon's EC2 cloud service to deliver enterprise applications over the public cloud. Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , which develops software for managing public and private cloud computing infrastructure, said this week that it has launched a new product called mCloud On-Demand.
socalTECH
JUNE 16, 2010
The software now supports Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Windows 7, along with VMware, Xen, and Amazon EC2 cloud computing. Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , which develops open source, cloud management software, said today that it has launched the latest version of its Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) software with support for Windows virtual machines.
socalTECH
AUGUST 25, 2010
The firms said the integrated stack allows companies to create their own version of Rackspace or Amazon EC2 within their own companies. Santa Barbara-based Eucaplytus Systems , the cloud management software firm backed by New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, said earlier this week that it has linked up with newScale and rPath on a new private cloud platform.
socalTECH
APRIL 15, 2010
The new software connects into Amazon AWS, and its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), SQS (Simple Queue Service), and S3 (Simple Storage Service) to coordinate grid processing. Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
The new Eucalptus software allows enterprise customers to create and manage their own cloud using those hypervisors; the Eucalyptus cloud also supports the Amazon Web Services API, so those companies can run their own, private cloud in-house with existing software built for Amazon EC2.
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
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.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
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. Northridge-based SmartSound Software , which develops an online software as well as PC-based software for creating royalty free soundtracks, said earlier this week that it has extended its service to allow users to customize and create tracks indefinitely, once purchased from the company.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
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. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue CloudI'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. This version is the shorter, ADHD version.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. Consumers have dozens of choices if they want to share their files with others on the Internet, however, if you're a corporate user, there just aren't the same number of options.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch.
socalTECH
JULY 12, 2013
Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
For us, we are currently deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and that essentially allows us to horizontally scale in the way that we need to.
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. What is TenHands and why the name?
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 28, 2012
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