Hacia el fin del data center de la empresa, persistencia en Amazon EC2

Data Center en la nube

El nuevo paso en los web services de Amazon se llama «Elastic Block Store» y consiste en que añaden persistencia a su EC2, el servicio con el que ofrecen capacidad de procesamiento «en la nube». Si unimos este paso al resto de su oferta, con SimpleDb y S3, tenemos una solución cada vez más completa para externalizar el data center de la empresa en su plataforma.

Con este «Elastic Block Store» cada vez hay menos diferencia entre lo que ofrece un hosting «normal» y soluciones como la de los web services de Amazon. En la competencia dentro de su sector, Google App Engine queda muy atrás en la competencia de las plataformas como servicio.

Claro que hablar hoy del fin de de los data centers es adelantarse mucho a la tendencia (Dion Hinchcliffe), además de obviar los problemas que acarrean las «soluciones en la nube», tanto legales como técnicas. La mayor preocupación viene dada por la dependencia de una empresa externa a la hora de mantener el servicio, pero las ventajas por otro lado son numerosas: escalabilidad y costes son las dos que más fuerza van a tener a la hora de que las empresas se planteen la externalización de su data center. Respecto a la disponibilidad, cierto que hay caídas, pero también cabe preguntarse si, como empresa, seríamos capaces de conseguir la estabilidad que ofrece Amazon.

Hay un montón de buenos artículos que pueden ayudar a valorar el paso que ha dado Amazon y que viene a fortalecer su excelente estrategia como plataforma:

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Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained

Now that Amazon’s Elastic Block Store is live I thought it’d be helpful to explain all the ins and outs as well as how to use them. The official information about EBS is found on the AWS site, I’ve written about the significance of EBS before and…

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Amazon EBS – Tool and Library Support

This is a companion post to my earlier post — Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) – Bring Us Your Data. In the other post you can read about the features of EBS. This post goes into more detail on the tool and library support that has been built by our c…

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Vertica / Sonian / Amazon Webinar

Earlier this year I talked about the unique and powerful AWS-powered solutions offered by Vertica and Sonian.

Tomorrow (August 21st), I will be taking part in a unique, three-party webinar. In the webinar you’ll get to hear from me, from Vertica Fie…

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OSGi running on Amazon EC2

OSGi is a Java-based service platform that can be remotely managed. The core part of the specifications is a framework that defines an application life cycle management model, a service registry, an Execution environment and Modules. Based on this framework, a large number of OSGi Layers, APIs, and Services have been defined. OSGi Specification is maintained by OSGi Alliance.

Server side OSGi applications now can also be easily deployed on computing clouds implemented by Amazon (EC2). With several mouse clicks your exported bundles can be uploaded to remote storage (S3) and added to profile (Launch Configuration). Now virtual servers (EC2 instances) containing OSGi framework provisioned with selected bundles can easily be started.

Screenshot of the Profile Editor:

Click here to open OSGi on EC2 video presentation in a new window.

If someone is interested in trying out OSGi Cloud – contact us at studio@service-cloud.com

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White Paper on 'Cloud Architectures' and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS

I am very happy to announce my white paper on Cloud Architectures is now ready. This is one incarnation of the Emerging Cloud Service Architectures that Jeff wrote about a few weeks ago.

If you are new to the cloud, the first section of the paper wil…

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Jollat – Cross-Platform AWS Manager Client

Andras wrote to tell me about Jollat, a new graphical cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux) management client for Amazon EC2 and S3. Available for free download (with a purchase option), the client includes a number of interesting features.

On the…

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