Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:31:39 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
As campaign season heats up, creating a political widget is a good way for startups to highlight their technology. Today, Jodange released two more Top of Mind widgets for iGoogle that tracks the sentiment about the political candidates as well as the sentiment of the candidates themselves on a series of topics. The […]Source:TechCrunch
Scalr is a recently open-sourced framework for managing the massive serving power of Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service. While web services have been using EC2 for increased capacity since Fall 2006, it has never been fully “elastic” (scaling requires adding and configuring more machines when the situation arises). What Scalr promises is […]

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On-demand host goes up against Amazon S3

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:30:03 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
Flexiscale, a new UK-based on-demand computing service aimed at Web 2.0 startups plans to compete with Amazon’s EC2/S3 service. The move - announced at today’s Future of Web Apps conference in London - is significant because there are so few ‘pay as you go’ hosting solutions in Europe, so the launch of a new service […]

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Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

On-demand host goes up against Amazon S3