{"id":186,"date":"2008-10-23T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/23\/cloud-computing-leaps-forward-ec2-and-automatic-scaling\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:19:53","slug":"cloud-computing-leaps-forward-ec2-and-automatic-scaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/23\/cloud-computing-leaps-forward-ec2-and-automatic-scaling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing Leaps Forward &#8211; EC2 and Automatic Scaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a big week for Cloud Computing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Cloud-Computing\/Rackspace-Looks-to-Expand-Cloud-Computing-Options-with-Acquisitions\/\">Rackspace announced they are entering the space via acquisition<\/a>. Today Amazon announces EC2 is no longer beta &#8211; which is good. The important part of the announcement for me is the roadmap they hint at.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/techcrunchIt\/~3\/79tf5O0aV2A\/\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"shot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunchit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ec2-diagram.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing keeps advancing like rolling thunder. Amazon today announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.typepad.com\/aws\/2008\/10\/big-day-for-ec2.html\">major upgrade<\/a> to its EC2 compute cloud service and Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim has decided to spend more time at his startup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aristanetworks.com\/\">Arista Networks,<\/a> which sells 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches aimed at handling the loads at cloud-computing data centers. And just yesterday, RackSpace announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/10\/22\/rackspace-acquires-jungledisk-slicehost-to-take-on-amazon-web-services\/\">two small acquisitions<\/a> to help it better compete against Amazon in the cloud computing as well.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest news today comes from Amazon, which is staking the \u201cbeta\u201d label off of its EC2 service and announcing the following upgrades:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>There\u2019s now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Microsoft SQL Server is now available in beta form on EC2.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>We plan to release an interactive AWS management console.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>We plan to release new load balancing, automatic scaling, and cloud monitoring services.<span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.googleadservices.com\/~a\/G-cJAwz1xIXwjvtozpJ7J6gOIzo\/a\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.googleadservices.com\/~a\/G-cJAwz1xIXwjvtozpJ7J6gOIzo\/i\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/techcrunchIt\/~4\/79tf5O0aV2A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> [From <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/techcrunchIt\/~3\/79tf5O0aV2A\/\"><cite>The Cloud Is Shaping Up. Amazon Beefs Up EC2, Bechtolsheim Shifts His Attention To Arista<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The addition of load balancing, automatic scaling and monitoring services are critical barriers to wide adoption. They are the only reason I&#8217;m not using EC2 for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosinity.com\" title=\"cosinity - communications applications that deliver\">cosinity&#8217;s<\/a> servers. I will anxiously wait for these improvements to EC2.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon &#8211; if you are reading this &#8211; the sooner you get those three things released in an effective management console you&#8217;ll have much more of my business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a big week for Cloud Computing. Rackspace announced they are entering the space via acquisition. Today Amazon announces EC2 is no longer beta &#8211; which is good. The important part of the announcement for me is the roadmap they hint at. Cloud computing keeps advancing like rolling thunder. Amazon today announced a major&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/23\/cloud-computing-leaps-forward-ec2-and-automatic-scaling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cloud Computing Leaps Forward &#8211; EC2 and Automatic Scaling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,18],"tags":[44,73,112,226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}