EC2 scale May 19, 2009
Posted by James Webster in : web, virtualization , trackbackAmazon released a number of new APIs for the EC2 cloud computing service yesterday, all designed around making it even easier to scale up your cloud in response to an increase in load or incoming traffic and simplifying distributing this load evenly across the cloud; CloudWatch, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing. Between these APIs and Canonical adding support for Eucalyptus (an open-source implementation of the EC2 API for running private clouds that can be scaled to EC2 if required) to Ubuntu, I find it hard to view Windows as a serious server operating system for cloud-style applications. Hopefully Microsoft will get a competitor widely released (and at a low cost of entry) soon; either that or Mono improves the server performance of their CLR implementation!
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