Almost two hours before Amazon Web Services publicly acknowledged an outage that brought down websites such as Reddit, Imgur and Heroku, application monitoring startup Boundary claims it started noticing the problem.
Amazon Web Services has almost fully recovered from a more than 12-hour event that appears to have started by only impacting a small number of customers but quickly snowballed into a larger issue that took down major sites including Reddit, Imgur and others yesterday.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to attract more high-performance computing users to its cloud and has launched a public beta of Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large, its most powerful cloud service yet.
In last week's news, Amazon Web Services vulnerabilities <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/102611-security-cloud-252406.html">were found and fixed</a>, but other cloud service providers are probably susceptible to similar problems <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/102611-researchers-demo-cloud-security-issue-252403.html">discovered by a German research team</a> at Ruhr University Bochum.
Amazon is stepping up the security and access features of its cloud services in an effort to attract more government agencies as customers.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) learned a lot of lessons from the outage that affected its Dublin data center, and will now work to improve power redundancy, load balancing and the way it communicates when something goes wrong with its cloud, the company said in a summary of the incident.
Amazon is struggling to restore customer data lost because of an <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080911-software-error-complicates-amazons-data.html?hpg1=bn">outage</a> at a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> in Ireland, as developers grow increasingly frustrated over the inability to access <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/applications.html">applications</a> they have built on top of Amazon's cloud service.
CIOs the world over who do business with US organisations do so under the shadow of the US Patriot Act.
Oracle's database is now available for deployment on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced Tuesday, but with some key limitations.
Last week we reported that HPC company Cycle Computing built a 10,000-core cluster on the Amazon EC2 cloud service. Cycle CEO Jason Stowe boasted that the cluster was big enough to make the list of the world's Top 500 supercomputers -- if only it had been subjected to the required speed test. Well, it turns out there already is a cloud-based supercomputer on the Top 500 list -- and it was built by Amazon itself.
Oracle's database will be available in the second quarter as part of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service, the companies announced Tuesday.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened its online database service for public beta testing and said a certain level of usage will be free, at least for now.