Category Archives: Cloud

Because of thinking just cause its in the cloud, it won’t fail

Posted on December 21, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting that some folks servers are “vanishing” as amazon accidently takes them down.  Did a little tinkering with AWS myself lately and its pretty neat stuff.  Heck alot cheaper than running my own server from scratch. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/aws_ec2_servers_retired_with_little_warning/

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Google taking aim at Amazon?

Posted on December 18, 2012 by robertwilkie

Basically the sum of the article is that Google is extending its reach in cloud based services for companies (where Amazon is another giant in). http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/15/google-could-loosen-amazons-cloud-grip-by-redefining/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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Amazon Web Services expected to hit 1.5 B in 2012

Posted on December 4, 2012 by robertwilkie

I never saw this one coming 6 years ago when I first took a look at VM tech.  Now back I go into the fray in my spare time. http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/27/amazon-web-services-expected-to-hit-1-5-billion-in-revenues-for-2012/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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Amazno EC2 now has Windows 2012

Posted on December 3, 2012 by robertwilkie

Amazon now allows you to rent Windows 2012.  But the article notes that unless you pay more (which you will already pay more to run Windows over Linux) the memory allocated for the server will barely be enough. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/21/amazon_does_windows_server_2012_on_ec2/

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