On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:26 PM, David Loke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Harish, > > You mean redhat is working with EC2 so that Redhat can be installed on EC2? > Redhat/Fedora or whatever you want can be installed on EC2. It's just a x86 virtual machine in loose terms. You've to build an image before you can launch an instance using that image (they're called AMI images). Unless you've a very specific need, you can go with the hundreds of pre-built, standard AMIs already available. > > Actually I'm exploring on how to setup an EC2. Is it a proprietary system? As I said, there's nothing special about EC2 for you to think it's a proprietary system. If you call your local VPS hosting provider proprietary, then EC2 is too :) The only thing that's amazing about EC2 compared to your local hosting provider is, you get charged based on CPU-hours (it's pay-as-you-go). You can launch a hundred EC2 instances programmatically tonight, do some expensive computation and shut them down tomorrow morning once your task is done. Amazon will charge you only for that period of usage (CPU hours, bandwidth costs, etc). You won't get this type of service from any other hosting provider. Anyways I work for a company called circos.com (in the Singapore office). We use Amazon EC2 & S3 extensively. We've a Hadoop cluster too. We dynamically resize the cluster based on the amount of work we need to do thanks to EC2. > > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harish Pillay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: SIN Linux User Groups Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Slugnet] Any open source "YouSendIt" type web app? > > David - > > > This thread really caught my attention. I've been exploring the cloud > > computing option, but it seems very hard to achieve. Anybody knows anyone > in > > SG already have such setups? > > I am not immediately aware of SG organizations using it, but I am sure I > can > find some. It is still early days yet, so the use cases might not be as > wide > as you would need. > > Having said that, there are some obvious roll outs - like Stephan's gig. > > Red Hat and Amazon have an arrangement for people to deploy on Red > Hat Enterprise Linux environments on EC2 as well as using JBoss as the > app server layer. Caveat: I work for Red Hat. > > Regards. > -- > Harish Pillay [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg id: 746809E3 > fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3 > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.4/1567 - Release Date: 2008-7-22 > 16:05 > > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > -- Harish Mallipeddi http://blog.poundbang.in
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