What Really Happend with the Amazon Cloud Server

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Posted on 28th April 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Around 1AM PST on Thursday April 21st 2011, one of the four availability  cloud hosting zones in the AWS US East region experienced a network fault that caused connectivity failures between EC2 instances and EBS.

This event triggered a failover sequence wherein EC2 automatically swapped out the EBS volumes that had lost connectivity with backup copies. At the same time, EC2 attempted to create new backup copies of all of the affected EBS volumes (they refer to this as “re-mirroring”).

While this procedure works fine for a few isolated EBS failures, this event was more widespread which created a very high load on the EBS infrastructure and the network that connects it to EC2. To make matters worse, some AWS users likely noticed problems and began attempting to restore their failed or poorly performing EBS volumes on their own.

All of this activity appears to have caused a meltdown of the network connecting EC2 to EBS and exhausted the available EBS physical storage in this availability zone. Because EBS performance is dependent on network latency and throughput to EC2, and because those networks were saturated with activity, EBS performance became severely degraded, or in many cases completely failed. These issues likely bled into other availability zones in the region as users attempted to recover their services by launching new EBS volumes and EC2 instances in those availability zones. Overall, a very bad day for AWS and EC2.

Article thanks to Cloud Harmony

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Cloud Girlfriend on a Cloud Server?

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Posted on 26th April 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Cloud Girlfriend, is a pretty funny service that helps users create the illusion of perfect girlfriend by setting up dummy profiles that would write on your Facebook wall and fool your friends into thinking you had a social life, has launched to the public today.

Described by founder David Fuhriman as a combination of Match.com and Second Life, the new Cloud Girlfriends lets you flirt as a fantasy character setting up Chat Dates with others who also are role playing. “We allow people to define their ideal self, find their perfect girlfriend or boyfriend and connect and interact as if that person existed. It can help in learning how to manage a real relationship, and they then take it into the real world,” says Fuhriman.

Fair enough. Fuhriman’s original idea of creating fake Facebook profiles would have rubbed many people the wrong way as personal Facebook accounts have to belong to an actual person according to the TOS.  TechCrunch gave our a code to all male TechCrunch readers interested in checking it out can use the code “TechCrunch” up to the first 500. What I think is really funny is that they are letting all women use the service for free. lol

 

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Why Did Amazon Cloud Servers Go Down

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Posted on 25th April 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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If you don’t know that the Amazon Cloud is out of commission by now then you probably don’t use services like:  Foursquare, Redit, Cydia and many other large organizations that depend on their websites being up. The outages began April 21, and persisted through April 24, when Amazon began reporting progress restoring the affected storage volumes.  Some website today on the 25th seem to still not be online yet.  It’s pretty sad.

Amazon Stated, “As we posted last night (24th), EBS [Elastic Block Storage] is now operating normally for all APIs and recovered EBS volumes,” Amazon wrote in a status update to its cloud-services page. “The vast majority of affected volumes have now been recovered. We’re in the process of contacting a limited number of customers who have EBS volumes that have not yet recovered and will continue to work hard on restoring these remaining volumes.”

“If you believe you are still having issues related to this event and we have not contacted you tonight, please contact us here,” Amazon added. “In the ‘Service’ field, please select Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. In the description field, please list the instance and volume IDs and describe the issue you’re experiencing.

“We are digging deeply into the root causes of this event and will post a detailed post mortem,” Amazon added.

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Apple Job Posting for Cloud Services

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Posted on 13th April 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Apple is looking for a full time Engineer to join it’s team working on the Apple cloud hosting product. This position would be to join a “small team” that is working on something no less audacious than “the future of cloud services at Apple!” In a job posting, the company said that this team will be, ” writing the software [that] forms the foundation for some of our most exciting new products and services.”

The most recent cloud-based rumors to circulate about Apple include the company working on a video streaming service, a music streaming service, and some form of enhanced online locker for music and/or video files.

Apple is also known to keep its development teams small, at least compared to some of its competitors, and today’s job posting (which was discovered by AppleInsider) suggests that this new development team will be making the tools used by other projects at Apple.

The job listing didn’t reveal anything about Apple’s specific plans for future web applications or services. The ideal candidate will likely be deeply involved with building internal systems for sharing data across Apple’s family of cloud products. By asking for applicants that can collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and have experience constructing highly scalable software powered by a variety of data management systems, it looks like the Cupertino-based company wishes to add muscle to the core APIs that power its online products and services.

Apple currently offers a suite of web products and services called MobileMe for US$99.00 per year. Many, including The Wall Street Journal, speculate the company plans to dramatically enhance these services later this year. There’s also the beta iWork.com, which has been in beta since 2009.

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Intro to the Facebook “Open Compute Project”

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Posted on 7th April 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Today Facebook is opening it’s doors to all of us in the hosting world to see how they have been scaling their data center.  The show us that the PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) in Facebook’s data center (Prineville) is much more efficient than the industry average (1.07 versus 1.5). according to the chart below provided my Facebook’s Data Center Team

“We think sharing this will help the ecosystem grow,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. “

We think there will be a lot of demand for this,” he continues. He notes that the Facebook team has been working on all of this for over a year.

Zuckerberg then introduced Jonathan Heiliger, the head of operations and the overseer of the Open Compute Project. Heiliger spoke about the way most companies lease space in a datacenter, and how Facebook was in that position for seven years. Then they realized they could do better. So they opened their own datacenter in Oregon. And now they’re building a second one — again, with their own servers as well.

I’ll be interesting to see how many businesses take advantage of this in the future.

 

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How Important is your Online Marketing?

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Posted on 5th April 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Free Cloud Music

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Posted on 4th April 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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The Amazon Cloud Music platform allows you to get 5gb free cloud music for your existing music collection for streaming cloud music.  The cloud music allows you to add an additional $1 (or more) per year, you get an incremental 1GB (or more) of storage.

As far as I know, Amazon has not negotiated a direct licenses with content owners for Cloud Drive. Amazon’s new Cloud Drive service lets you store your music, movies, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon’s servers in a sort of virtual locker so that you can get to your entire digital library any time and anywhere. When you want to listen to, watch, or otherwise use what’s in your locker, you open it up in a browser or on your phone if you have an Android phone (and you have to think an iPhone app is forthcoming).

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