My Photo

« Jobs at Amazon: Business Development Manager | Main | Blah Blah Blah -- IT Conversations Podcast »

Commodity Computing with Amazon's S3 and EC2

Commodity_grid_computing_with_s3_and_ec2Researcher Simson Garfinkel has written a detailed review of Amazon's S3 and EC2 services.

His new article, Commodity Computing with Amazon's S3 and EC2, starts out by reviewing the basics of S3 and then digs deeper into performance and security. After a brief review of EC2, he describes his own s3_glue, a C++ client library for S3. You can find s3_glue attached to this discussion board thread.

While the overall review is positive, Simson identifies some areas where there is clearly room for improvement. We find this kind of information to be extremely helpful. The feedback that we get from reviews, discussion board messages, audience Q&A, and private emails is taken very seriously and feeds directly into our product plans.

-- Jeff;

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c534853ef00d8351f2af569e2

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Commodity Computing with Amazon's S3 and EC2:

Comments

What Garfinkel refers to as "long term availability" (aka SLA's) are the #1 problem with S3 at the moment. Software can work around individual applications' quirks and anything can be done in that area given enough ingenuity and elbow grease, but legal incompatibility (or, perhaps even worse in this case, legal unknowns) can either be ignored, or bring plans to a screeching halt. Neither option is at all positive.

Garfinkel mentions bandwidth issues. I'm thinking of using both EC2 and S3 for video services in europe, where low bandwidth means painful playback. Is there only one large datacenter in the US or is it a world-wide distributed system?

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been saved. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them.

Email Subscription

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

July 2009

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
      1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31