Syn Microsystems is offering such a model also. I don't remember the webpage it was mentioned on though. The service was limited to the us too I think. |
Sun Grid Compute Utility (http://www.network.com/) is only US-based and still isn't live. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011) is just released into beta and is available to everyone, as is S3 and all other web services. It's fun (http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/30737) ;-)
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This looks very exciting. I can see a whole industry helping people set these up. i.e. I have a Web App help me scale it. Interesting to see there is nothing yet on Google for "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud". |
Leon Brocard: > Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ... is just released into > beta and is available to everyone, as > is S3 and all other web services.
No, not all of their web services are available to everyone. E.g. quote the Mechanical Turk customer support:
<<At the current time, all of the following information is required to set up a Payment Account for Mechanical Turk
1.) a valid checking, savings or other automated clearing house enable bank account (an “ACH-Enabled Bank Account”) at a United States-based financial institution
2.) a United States address associated with your ACH-Enabled Bank Account
3.) a United States billing address
4.) a valid United States driver’s license number if you are an individual>> |
each mount point could have – 1.7Ghz Xeon CPU, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s of network bandwidth.
thats would be like a mulitple [${ME}->$PSEUDONYM->$PWD _ if one had more then one mount point.
if you can custom build a grid for each customer and sell 10X the infrastructure, then thats a good thing. Thats what SUN is doing with their grid. Can Amazon really enter into the infrastructure space ?? Afterall Amazon is known to be just a seller of books (mostly) |
heres the cloudinfra on the SUN GRID..
Elements Sun's Grid Industry Standard Server V20Z Opteron (2.4 GHz), V210 SPARC RAM per CPU 4 Gig Cache storage per CPU 20 Gig Operating System Solaris 10 Is OS open source? Yes Is OS Protected by ALL* corporate patents? Yes Minimum Commitment 4 hrs. Price per hour $1 US
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Here is the first live app that I've aseen: http://domu-12-31-33-00-04-9c.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com/ |
Leon: I can't find a sign that the Sun offer isn't live. It seems possible to register? |
Nice linky Iolaire.!!
and the this si the log entry
http://overstimulate.com/articles/2006/08/24/amazon-does-it-again.html |
Storage management, queuing, virtual machines... S3, SQS, and now EC2 sound every bit as much like a web operating system as anything Google is putting out there. It can't be too long before someone releases an AWS application framework for building scalable applications. Just click "Build" and then "Publish" and your application is up and running for 10 or 10 million visitors---don't worry, it knows how to scale itself!
If this keeps up, web developers are in for a wild ride as enterprise-level services become available to the masses. It should be a lot of fun.
At least until someone uses all this stuff to build Skynet and then the terminators start killing us all...
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Google could offer a service like this for free, and, as with all of their services, find a way to make it ad-supported in the future. They have more computing infrastructure than any other single organization in the world. |
As exciting as this is from a cost/benefit perspective, I think that real value is created for B2B integration is the elimination of the remaining barrier to building effective and efficient networks that extend business processes across enterprise boundaries has been eliminated. The Virtual VAN (http://TheVirtualVAN.com) already leveraged Amazon’s S3 for virtual storage and SQS for the Internet point-of-presence. Now we can build an image of EME and deploy it to EC2 and eliminate the need to install and configure a server at all! All an enterprise will need is a lightweight connector that sends and receives messages to SQS. Everything else is ‘virtual.’ As the barriers are removed, the business value of B2B integration will finally be realized.
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