Is there a storage limit for Amazon S3? The recent storage statistics released by Amazon show steady growths over the last four years. The number of Objects stored in S3 has reached quarter of a trillion! While the peak request rate for S3 is over 200, 000 requests per second. This is what makes...
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Amazon’s beta AWS Elastic Beanstalk allows developers to write Java code, compile it, package it into a web archive file and upload it to AWS PaaS environment. Once the code is uploaded, the service creates and configures the resources required (EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancer and Auto Scaling Group) to run the application. The...
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As from January 1, 2011, Amazon reduced the usage-based pricing for the Silver and Gold support plans by 50%. The minimum cost ($100 per month for Silver and $400 per month for Gold) remains the same. The usage-based fee for the Silver support plan is now 5% of your usage instead of 10%. The usage...
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In mid December one of the top Cloud hosting providers, RackSpace announced the acquisition of CloudKick. CloudKick offers a web application that helps organizations manage their cloud servers. CloudKick is a two year old succesful company that enjoys a big customer base and RackSpace has confirmed that it has taken on the CloudKick staff as part of...
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On December 3, 2010 Amazon announced a free basic monitoring service for EC2 instances. The free service provided by Amazon CloudWatch is available to all instances and is enabled by default. Select the instance from the AWS management console and you would able to view performance metrics such as, CPU utilization, disk reads and...
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On Friday 10 December, Amazon announced an enhancement in their S3 storage infrastructure – an increase in the maximum size of an object from 5 gigabytes to 5 terabytes. Users can now easily store and reference high resolution videos, large backup files, scientific instrument data or other large datasets as single objects.
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