I was looking into Amazon Storage Services again (s3), as I was thinking of writing a small application for backing up my personal documents daily.
But before I start I just quickly had a peak at the Solutions catalog, and found quite a few nice solutions built around S3, and some other AWS(Amazon Web Services) components.
Also something very interesting is Amazons’ Elastic Compute Cloud (E2) platform .
If I”m not mistaken, Vinny Lingham also mentioned that they are looking at using cloud computing Synthasite – though I stand to be corrected on this one …
Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines for use, load them with your custom application environment, manage your network’s access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as you desire.
To use Amazon EC2, you simply:
- Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing your applications, libraries, data and associated configuration settings. Or use our pre-configured, templated images to get up and running immediately.
- Upload the AMI into Amazon S3. Amazon EC2 provides tools that make storing the AMI simple. Amazon S3 provides a safe, reliable and fast repository to store your images.
- Use Amazon EC2 web service to configure security and network access.
- Choose the type(s) of instance you want to run.
- Start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs.
- Pay for the instance-hours and bandwidth that you actually consume.