I did a fairly deep dive into some new cool things in EC2 this weekend and ran into something that caught me off guard. The default Amazon AMIs come with the EC2 tools pre-loaded and ready to go. Or so I read. But, when trying to run, I was greeted …
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu foundation, announced today the plans for Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”. The server version will focus on developments both in the Amazon EC2 cloud as well as allowing users to build their own elastic computing clouds utilizing the Eucalyptus platform. Ubuntu started offering official …
Ubuntu is now offering images of its Ubuntu Server operating system to EC2 users. The program is still in beta, but allows EC2 users to launch “official” images of the operating system created by Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu) running within minutes for use on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. …
While perusing forums and blogs, I’ve noticed a trend that seems to be happening, though I can’t quite put a finger on it. We know from a lot of articles that have been written recently that a good chunk of Google’s products are still listed as being in beta. A …
Amazon has announced support for Windows Server and MS SQL Server running in EC2 coming this fall. The announcement came the same day that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the coming of Windows ‘Cloud’. This functionality was available before using a bit of a hack, but will be fully supported …