Top Reasons Amazon EC2 Instances Disappear

The fact that Amazon says up-front that computers fail seems to be the number one concern and criticism of EC2, especially from people who have not used it extensively. I don’t actually spend much time thinking about that because in our experience it’s not something to worry about. It’s essential to take into account when designing a system; whenever we set something up on a machine we immediately think “and what do we do …

February 2, 2008 Flexera

Network Performance Within Amazon EC2 and to Amazon S3

What is the expected network performance between Amazon EC2 instances? What is the available bandwidth between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3? How about in and out of EC2? These are common questions that we get regularly. While we more or less know the answers to them out of our own experience in the past 15 months, we haven’t really conducted a clean experiment to put some more precise numbers behind them. Since it’s about time, I’ve…

October 28, 2007 Flexera