How long does it take to launch an Amazon EC2 instance?
As part of a project to offset usage spikes by auto spinning up EC2 instances on the fly for added computing power during high traffic periods, I needed to answer the question how fast could I really...
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How to Save a Snapshot of your Amazon EC2 Instance
This how to article will go over saving a snapshot of your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Machine Image (AMI). This is very useful for taking an existing AMI and modifying it to customize your...
View ArticleWhat is The Throughput For an Amazon EC2 Instance?
Since bandwidth throughput when using Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is very important when routing traffic and services I decided to take some measurements and outline them here for...
View ArticleAmazon EC2 64-bit CentOS 5.3 Base Public AMI ‘s
I have had a lot of people request me to make a public base CentOS 5.3 64-bit EC2 AMI in all the AWS Regions. I can understand some of you would like to fire up a base instance and then make...
View ArticleVMIX Leverages Amazon Web Services to Localize Video Processing in Europe and...
VMIX Completes Rollout of Local Video Storage and Processing in Europe and Asia Using Amazon Web Services SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VMIX (www.vmix.com), a leading carrier-class online video platform...
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50+ Million Objects Totaling 220+ Terabytes in Amazon Web Services S3 Cloud
As Director of Systems Engineering for VMIX, one of the best parts of my job is to share data for different technologies we use and have success with. One of the most interesting statistics we have is...
View ArticleHow to create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Machine Image (AMI) CentOS...
This how to article will go over creating a Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Machine Image (AMI) S3 backed as well as EBS backed. In this particular example we are creating a Centos 6 64bit AMI from...
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How an AWS Outage Can Cause Issues Even When You’re in Multi-Availability Zones
This is reposted from a blog I wrote for Systems Watch Today Amazon Web Services experienced multiple degradations of service in one availability zone in Virginia region (us-east-1), which caused sites...
View ArticleAWS EC2 64-bit CentOS 6.3 Public AMI ‘s (EBS and Instance-Store)
For those of you looking for a 64-bit CentOS 6.3 AMI (Amazon Machine Image) to use or to create your own snapshot or custom AMI from, I have created both Instance-store and EBS backed Public AMI’s....
View ArticleHow to make a Python Web App in Virtualenv using Flask, Gunicorn, NGINX on...
This article will cover creating a scalable Python Flask web application on Ubuntu 18.04 using Gunicorn and NGINX. The web application also leverages Virtualenv to provide an isolated Python...
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