Interesting Information from the Amazon Web Services Blog

In ET we want to try a project with cloud computing using Amazon Web Services (AWS).  As I was poking around to get an estimate on the cost for a project, I found the AWS Blog.  This has some interesting content that gives practical examples that we can use as guidance when we start our project.  There are also some neat things available to help with your presence on AWS:

• Elastic Fox is a Firefox plugin that helps track your Amazon Machine Images in EC2
  
• There is a Service Health Dashboard to track the status of all your Amazon Web Services
• Here is an example of Dynamic Scaling if your web service is wildly successful
• Assay Depot is another success story.  This blog includes a discussion of how they do backups on AWS.

I'll be back with more as we get familiar with the AWS offerings and services.

Al W.