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Amazon Web Services in Greece, meet up #2

Almost 5 months after the first AWS meetup in Greece, I would like to announce the second one. This time we will also have Simone Brunozzi (@simon) with us, who is an Amazon Web Services Evangelist. A lot to be discussed like the AWS management console, the reserved...

Tutorial: Running a php/mySQL server on EC2 with EBS

Last week I did a presentation on Amazon Web Services meet up in Greece. During the presentation I showed how you can start an AMI of fedora 8 base, install apache, php and mySQL and make them all store their data on an EBS volume. This attracted a lot of attention...

Microsoft launches Azure, a cloud computing platform

Cloud computing is one of the hottest industries right now. There are several companies already offering services like Amazon, Rackspace, Joyent, Slicehost, Gogrid and Aptana. Today Microsoft launched Azure, a cloud for applications designed for Microsoft Products....

Great news for EC2!

Today is a big day for EC2. Many great things happened: * Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone. * There’s now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2. * Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2. * Microsoft SQL Server is...