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Looking at Clouds from Both Sides Now 17 Dec 2011 | 10:31 am
I'll apologize up front for that horrible pun in the title. No excuse, really. After 18 months at Eucalyptus, the best private cloud vendor out there, I have decided to see what things are like on t...
Don't reboot me, bro! 8 Dec 2011 | 06:41 am
If you are an AWS user with EC2 instances running, you may have already gotten an email from AWS informing you that your instance(s) will be rebooted in the near future. I'm not exactly sure what is ...
Mapping Requests to EC2 API Versions 14 Nov 2011 | 12:44 pm
I recently did some analysis of the EC2 API. I wanted to look at the API over time so I could remember which API requests were added in each of the 23 separate versions of the API over the past 5 yea...
Python and AWS Cookbook Available 1 Nov 2011 | 02:41 am
I recently completed a short book for O'Reilly called "Python and AWS Cookbook". It's a collection of recipes for solving common problems in Amazon Web Services. The solutions are all in Python and,...
Does Python Scale? 15 Oct 2011 | 05:45 am
I wonder how many times I've been asked that question over the years. Often, it's not even in the form of a question (Sorry, Mr. Trebek) but rather stated emphatically; "Python doesn't scale". This ...
Accessing the Eucalyptus Community Cloud with boto 14 Oct 2011 | 01:10 am
The Eucalyptus Community Cloud (ECC) is a great resource that allows you to try out a real cloud computing system without installing any software or incurring any costs. It's a sandbox environment th...
Accessing the Internet Archive with boto 23 Feb 2011 | 02:39 am
A recent tweet from Pete Skomoroch twigged me to the fact that the Internet Archive provides an S3-like API. Cool! The Internet Archive is a great resource which provides, in their words: ...a dig...
All Your Website Are Belong to S3 18 Feb 2011 | 03:14 pm
One of the most commonly requested features for S3 has been the ability to have it act more like a web server. In other words, to be able to put an index.html file into a bucket and then point someon...
It Takes a Village... 28 Jan 2011 | 04:51 am
There are a lot of reasons someone might want to start an open source software project. You may be motivated by idealistic notions like freedom (as in both "free speech" and "free beer"), contributio...
S3 MultiPart Upload in boto 6 Dec 2010 | 08:22 am
Amazon recently introduced MultiPart Upload to S3. This new feature lets you upload large files in multiple parts rather than in one big chunk. This provides two main benefits: You can get resumabl...
