Comments on: Comparing EC2 and App Engine http://markusklems.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/comparing-ec2-and-app-engine/ Random Thoughts of Markus Klems Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:36:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: wan optimization solutions http://markusklems.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/comparing-ec2-and-app-engine/#comment-153 wan optimization solutions Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:05:01 +0000 http://markusklems.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-153 Last week Microsoft posted useful documentations on technet. Title Description Logical Architecture Sample Design: Corporate Deployment ( Illustrates a generic corporate deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. The model applies nearly all of the logical architecture components and illustrates how these are incorporated into the overall design. Use this model with the following article: Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment. Architecture Design Example: Twynham School (U. K.) ( Illustrates the... Last week Microsoft posted useful documentations on technet. Title Description Logical Architecture Sample Design: Corporate Deployment ( Illustrates a generic corporate deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. The model applies nearly all of the logical architecture components and illustrates how these are incorporated into the overall design. Use this model with the following article: Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment. Architecture Design Example: Twynham School (U. K.) ( Illustrates the…

]]> By: Corey Riley http://markusklems.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/comparing-ec2-and-app-engine/#comment-133 Corey Riley Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:05:13 +0000 http://markusklems.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-133 I would also like to offer my company, AppNexus, as a complete cloud computing solution. We have two datacenters (NY, LA), dedicated physical servers with a hypervisor that can run any operating system, F5 local and global load balancing, Isilon NAS, and 100% SLA among other services. Please check out wiki.appnexus.com for more info. I would also like to offer my company, AppNexus, as a complete cloud computing solution. We have two datacenters (NY, LA), dedicated physical servers with a hypervisor that can run any operating system, F5 local and global load balancing, Isilon NAS, and 100% SLA among other services. Please check out wiki.appnexus.com for more info.

]]> By: Ari Lerner http://markusklems.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/comparing-ec2-and-app-engine/#comment-85 Ari Lerner Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:50:21 +0000 http://markusklems.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-85 Also, there is an open source cloud manager as well: http://poolpartyrb.com/ Also, there is an open source cloud manager as well: http://poolpartyrb.com/

]]> By: ElasticHosts http://markusklems.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/comparing-ec2-and-app-engine/#comment-66 ElasticHosts Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:18:56 +0000 http://markusklems.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-66 One key point is that Google App Engine is designed specifically for web hosting, whilst Amazon EC2 is a general purpose cloud infrastructure. For those looking for a cloud infrastructure offering, there are several vendors offering virtual servers in the cloud in an environment which is better tailored to web hosting than EC2 - for instance including a full range of accompanying services (e.g. domain registration, mail forwarding) and with better support for 24/7 operations (e.g. persistent hard disk images, unlike EC2, in which they are not automatically saved across a reboot). US: MediaTemple, GoGrid, Mosso UK: ElasticHosts, FlexiScale One key point is that Google App Engine is designed specifically for web hosting, whilst Amazon EC2 is a general purpose cloud infrastructure.

For those looking for a cloud infrastructure offering, there are several vendors offering virtual servers in the cloud in an environment which is better tailored to web hosting than EC2 – for instance including a full range of accompanying services (e.g. domain registration, mail forwarding) and with better support for 24/7 operations (e.g. persistent hard disk images, unlike EC2, in which they are not automatically saved across a reboot).

US: MediaTemple, GoGrid, Mosso
UK: ElasticHosts, FlexiScale

]]> By: Markus Klems http://markusklems.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/comparing-ec2-and-app-engine/#comment-62 Markus Klems Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:40:01 +0000 http://markusklems.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-62 Kevin, I am looking forward to the Rails bundle. Thanks for comments. Markus Kevin,
I am looking forward to the Rails bundle.
Thanks for comments.
Markus

]]> By: Kevin Hakman http://markusklems.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/comparing-ec2-and-app-engine/#comment-61 Kevin Hakman Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:57:29 +0000 http://markusklems.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-61 Also note that with Aptana instead of "Today’s big cloud infrastructures comprise of a bunch of vendor-specific services" as you mention, the application engines Aptana provides are PHP+MySQL+Apache and soon Ruby on Rails. The whole point is that these are open source application stacks already in broad use. Plus there's the Jaxer server which leverages the already very popular Mozilla browser engine at its core to deliver server-side JavaScript, DOM, HTML, etc... such that your server languages are the same as your client-side languages. Also note that with Aptana instead of “Today’s big cloud infrastructures comprise of a bunch of vendor-specific services” as you mention, the application engines Aptana provides are PHP+MySQL+Apache and soon Ruby on Rails. The whole point is that these are open source application stacks already in broad use. Plus there’s the Jaxer server which leverages the already very popular Mozilla browser engine at its core to deliver server-side JavaScript, DOM, HTML, etc… such that your server languages are the same as your client-side languages.

]]> By: Kevin Hakman http://markusklems.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/comparing-ec2-and-app-engine/#comment-57 Kevin Hakman Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:05:51 +0000 http://markusklems.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-57 FWIW--Aptana Cloud (www.aptana.com/cloud) also provides the management and monitoring cpabilities you talk about as well as integrated development team support via hosted SVN and team member management. FWIW–Aptana Cloud (www.aptana.com/cloud) also provides the management and monitoring cpabilities you talk about as well as integrated development team support via hosted SVN and team member management.

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