“Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon’s EC2.”
#amazon
Redundancy, Performance and Geo-Optimization with S3 and CDNs
Disclaimer: This is a theory, I haven’t tried this out (anyone at EdgeCast want to confirm/give me a free account to try it out? 🙂 )
I was looking at ways to store large volumes of user-uploaded resources (images) in a web environment tonight and had a bit of an epiphany. I had defaulted to Amazon’s S3 web service as the storage platform, since I’ve worked with it before and love the idea of an “unlimited”, fully-redundant storage device. The main problem with S3 however, is that it’s got less than stellar performance as far as latency and geographically-optimized delivery. That, and the bandwidth is relatively expensive.
So — what happens if you combine S3 with a Content Delivery Network of some sort? (more…)
S3Hub: S3 Client (for Mac OS X)
S3Hub: S3 Client (for Mac OS X)
A Leopard-only Mac client for accessing S3 buckets.
The Road (Oprah’s Book Club): Cormac McCarthy: Books
The Road (Oprah’s Book Club): Cormac McCarthy: Books
“Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we’ve read this year.”
Code Toolkit : tan tan noodles
Code Toolkit : tan tan noodles
This guy has done a lot of cool development and has some interesting plugins and scripts available for download.
Amazon S3 plugin for WordPress
Amazon S3 plugin for WordPress
A plugin that makes your uploads through WordPress store on S3.
Amazon S3 Tools
Awesome list of tools and techniques for working with S3
A MySQL Storage Engine for AWS S3
A MySQL Storage Engine for AWS S3
Could it be real? Some guy is figuring out a way to back MySQL data onto Amazon S3.
ddclient – DynDNS Perl Client
Awesome Perl app which will update dynamic DNS information with DynDNS in an environment where your IP isn’t static (EC2?)
Intelligent online task management | Smartsheet.com
Intelligent online task management | Smartsheet.com
Interesting take on project management. Basically a souped-up spreadsheet with users, date selection, powerful reporting etc. Apparently uses EC2 and S3 to power it.