EC2
30th Apr 2012
AWS Marketplace – An Oversimplification of the Cloud?
Recently Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Marketplace. It is certainly a welcome move that brings all the available software on Amazon EC2 under one roof. This is especially good for ISVs to get visibility and become more accessible to potential customers.
9th Mar 2012
Windows Azure Drops the Prices - The Price War on the Cloud benefits the Customers
The on-demand pricing of Windows Azure Storage is reduced by 12% with immediate effect. If you commit to a 6 month plan, the cost savings will be a decent 14%! Windows Azure Extra Small Compute prices are dropped by a whopping 50%. With just .$02, This is now cheaper than the Amazon EC2 Micro Instance type running Microsoft Windows Server.
14th Feb 2012
AWS & Windows Azure - Side by Side Comparison
Many customers evaluating Public Cloud will invariably consider Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. With both the stacks adding new services at a rapid pace, it becomes hard to understand how the features stack up. This is an attempt to put them side by side and do a quick comparison of the features. We will be updating this grid to reflect the latest additions to either stacks.
12th Jan 2012
Has Google App Engine Lost the Steam?
During the early days, Google missed the great opportunity to on-board massive number of applications onto the platform and also the opportunity of engaging with the critically important community of developers. So, what went wrong with Google App Engine?
7th Jan 2012
Amazon adds EC2 Status Check and Reporting Features
With today’s announcement, AWS makes it easy to get insights into the boot process and accurately diagnose the issues with the EC2 instances. EC2 Status Check provides two levels of diagnostics – 1) System Status Check and, 2) Instance Status Check.