Category: Amazon
Amazon builds top-500 supercomputer in the cloud
Online retail giant Amazon has built a top-500 supercomputer in its cloud. Amazon’s cluster contained 7,040 processing cores and achieved speeds of 41.82 teraflops ranking it as the 231st fastest supercomputer in the world. The cluster ran the Linux OS on Intel Xeon X5570 processors with a 10 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect, and was de-provisioned soon [...]
US Senate considers changes to Electronic Privacy Law
In 1986, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), with the admonition that “privacy protections must advance with technology, or privacy will gradually erode as technology advances.” The committee again met Wednesday to deliberate over updates to the aging law. Chairman of the committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), said that “while [...]
Amazing Amazon S3 statistics
Amazon Web Services said this week that its S3 cloud storage service housed 262 billion objects at year-end of 2010, more than doubling in size from 102 billion objects at the close of 2009. The peak request rate for S3 is now in excess of 200,000 requests per second, according to Amazon’s Jeff Barr. Read [...]
Amazon Launches Bulk cloud computing E-Mail Service
Amazon Web Services Jan. 25 launched a bulk e-mail service for businesses and developers, providing a messaging option for the cloud computing provider’s arsenal of Web-based services. AWS intends Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) as an alternative to the thorny work of building a custom messaging platform or licensing an e-mail service from a [...]
Amazon releases Elastic Beanstalk
Beanstalk,” a new free service to make it easier for application developers to use the company’s suite of cloud-based computing services. “Developers simply upload their application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring,” the company said this morning in announcing the service. “At the [...]
Amazon Web Services Takes Advantage of GPUs in the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows users of its cloud computing platform to take advantage of the extra power graphics processing units (GPUs) can give. The company hopes the move will attract high-performance computing applications to its service. AWS has added a new Cluster GPU instance to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, which provides [...]
Recovery.gov Moved To Amazon Cloud
The federal government has moved Recovery.gov, the Web site people can use to track spending under last year’s $787 million economic stimulus package, to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced Thursday. The move marks a milestone for the Obama administration’s cloud computing initiative. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said [...]
Amazon Cloud Computing
An Overview of Amazon Seattle-based Amazon Inc. is one of the world’s largest online businesses, and is rated as the biggest online retailer in America. The company was also one of the trailblazers in E-commerce as we know it today, having started its operations in the mid 1990s—just a short time before the first real [...]
