Seven lessons to learn from Amazon’s outage (Phil Wainewright/Software as Services Blog)
Phil Wainewright / Software as Services Blog:Seven lessons to learn from Amazon’s outage — As of the latest update this afternoon on Amazon’s Service Health Dashboard, only a handful of customers are still waiting for their EBS and RDS instances to be restored after Thursday’s harrowing outage. But for everyone involved …
Dedicated Hardware Now Available in Amazon’s Cloud (Mikael Ricknäs/PC World)
Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:Dedicated Hardware Now Available in Amazon’s Cloud — Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now run their cloud applications on hardware dedicated to them, the company said on Monday. — Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) uses virtualization, based on a customized version of the Xen hypervisor …
Netflix Embraces Amazon’s Cloud For Critical Services (J. Bonasia/Investor’s Business Daily)
J. Bonasia / Investor’s Business Daily:Netflix Embraces Amazon’s Cloud For Critical Services — On Aug. 11, 2008, Netflix (NFLX) tech managers detected a “database corruption event” that caused their DVD shipping system to fail. The firm’s official blog blamed a “key faulty hardware component.”
YouTube uses Amazon’s recommendation algorithm (Greg Linden/Geeking with Greg)
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:YouTube uses Amazon’s recommendation algorithm — In a paper at the recent RecSys 2010 conference, “The YouTube Video Recommendation System” (ACM), eleven Googlers describe the system behind YouTube’s recommendations and personalization in detail. — The most interesting disclosure …
Amazon’s New Video Streaming Service Will Disrupt The CDN Industry(AMZN, AKAM, LLWN) (Dan Rayburn/Silicon Alley Insider)
Dan Rayburn / Silicon Alley Insider:Amazon’s New Video Streaming Service Will Disrupt The CDN Industry(AMZN, AKAM, LLWN) — This morning, Amazon announced that their CloudFront content delivery service now supports Flash streaming as long as the videos are stored on Amazon’s S3 service. Amazon has deployed version 3.5.2 …
