A Cloudy Place

Cloud computing has now entered into most executives’ common vernacular. Certain ideas and themes come through and a common misconception is that the cloud is cheap, right? In some circumstances, it is even free (check out Amazon Web Services ‘Free Web Tier’) Read more…

Jeff Foster is a Software Engineer working on Red Gate’s SQL Source Control product. Jeff and his team have recently begun investigating the use of Amazon’s EC2 to run engine tests and he was kind enough to sit down and talk about the process. Read more…

The first time I remember hearing about Eucalyptus, an open source product for building private clouds, was when Canonical launched “Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud” in Ubuntu 9.04, April of 2009. UEC, a version of Eucalyptus, allowed users of Ubuntu Server to build their own clouds behind the firewall. Read more…

Elastic Beanstalk, which launched in January 2011, is a Platform service that simplifies application deployment in AWS. Amazon has recently extended Beanstalk with PHP language support. By adding PHP in Beanstalk, Amazon has made clear their move into the platform service landscape. Read more…

My company has made a fundamental shift towards cloud computing and specifically towards Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the last 12 months. This is the second part of a two-part article (read Part 1 here) where I cover our experience migrating to the cloud. Read more…

My company has made a fundamental shift towards cloud computing and specifically towards Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the last 12 months.

Why did we do it? Read more…

Last week Amazon announced their new non-relational database service, DynamoDB, and launched it in beta in the US-EAST-1 region. Amazon’s CTO, Werner Vogels, describes the product as ”a fast and scalable NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications“. Read more…

This article is by Jeremiah Peschka and was originally published on www.brentozar.com. A section of the article has been reproduced here with permission.

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The cloud is robust and reliable. The cloud solves all of our scaling needs. The cloud makes my poop smell like roses. Read more…