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Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB - Please enlighten me!

by mywebwork
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Hi fellow Warriors

I'm hoping that some of you have had experience with Amazon S3 storage and EC2 Cloud computing - they look like a perfect match for a project I'm working on. I'm just going over their site and documentation and there is a wealth of information there - in fact it's information overload! I'm going to dig into it today but I can only devote a bit of time to it.

I'm anxious to get feedback or advice from anyone who may be able to shed some light on these services. Basically I'm excited to hear that you can run Ubuntu 9.04 on the cloud computing, I'm hoping that I can just take a design that I'm running on my own Ubuntu 9.04 server and port it over? I'm currently using a MySQL database but have been considering PostgreSQL (it's a very database-intensive application) - now I want to know if SimpleDB makes any sense?

I also know there are a couple of other cloud computing services out there aside from Amazons, if anyone has any experience there I'd be grateful if you'd share it.

Aloha


Bill
#amazon #ec2 #enlighten #simpledb
  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    Amazon's "cloud" isn't automatic: computing power(ec2) doesn't scale up or down automatically depending on how much traffic you're having. All of that will have to be done by you, either programmatically or manually. S3 and Simpledb can be said to be real cloud based services, everything is automatic.

    As for simpledb, what I've heard is that latency is a bit high, however speed is constant whether you have 10 people visiting your website or 10k. Simpledb is also not your typical SQL database. In fact, it's not a relational database engine so you'll have to adapt your applications towards it.

    Please note that I have no real experience with Amazon services, I just read daily about them.

    Good luck with your project,
    Tyrus
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  • Profile picture of the author Spencer Westwood
    I've not tried out the ec2 service, but the S3 and the Cloud work swell.

    Use the firefox S3 plugin and it's pretty straightforward to get an account, upload the files and then spread them into the cloudfront.

    Kind regards, Spencer.

    P.S. There are other services worth taking a look too.. it depends on what your code is...
    Aptana Cloud for php/rails/java is worth a peek..
    As is Google App Engine for python based systems..
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  • Profile picture of the author Markus_Allen
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    • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
      I have never heard of SimpleDB until now, so I had to Google it. One of the top results was the following link which you might want to read.

      Top 10 Reasons to Avoid the SimpleDB Hype — ryanpark.org

      If everything the author of that blog says is true, SimpleDB might not be what you're after.
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      :)

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