Amazon EC2 - Images for IFBIN 2.0
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
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I am full speed ahead on IFBIN development and I needed a storage and server solution. I have wanted to tinker with Amazon EC2 for a while and tonight I got neck deep. I got a server all configured and running Linux/Apache/MySql; now I need to install ColdFusion 8! I am running IFBIN 2.0 on ColdFusion 8 on EC2/S3. Getting an AMI image built and customized was my first task.
Here is the result:
IFBIN 2.0 Server Image on Amazon EC2/S3
If you have not checked it out, Amazon EC2/S3 are really amazing services:
S3 - Simple Storage Service --> Think of it as a massive disk with unlimited scalability.
EC2 - Elastic Computing Cloud --> Think of this as a cluster where you can execute machines you create and customize. Load an OS image into S3 and run it on EC2.
EC2/S3 are creating some amazing new business opportunities. The cost of hardware and time to configure are no longer barriers to creating an online business. Scalability is 100% virtualized and has become a service in the cloud.
Seeing my first EC2 image working is really amazing to me. In 1 minute I could launch 20 servers without issue to handle any task all from my own custom images, that is insane.
Check out Amazon Web Services when you get a chance. It is amazing.
Cheers,
Ted :)
I get a connection time out error when click on the demo link.
thanks
Hey Ted, yes these services are quite amazing. One interesting case study is this idea of live blogging for events such as Apple's Keynotes:
http://sitening.com/blog/2007/06/12/live-blogging-with-amazon-s3/
I've got an S3 storage account and back up my sh*t using Jungledisk. Works really well it costs next to nothing.
But EC2? Never noticed that. What kind of images do we upload? Like VMware type stuff?
PS: thanks for the stickers Ted!
I pulled the image down hence the broken link, more to come! :)
The current image I am running is Fedora Core 7 with Twisted Python, Psyco, and custom HTTP server with binary socket support. You can do allot with Twisted, maybe too much. :)
cheers,
Ted :)
I remember looking at these services when they initially launched. I decided to pass because I didn't know what the 'real' cost would be to tinker.
I see the price list on the page you link to, but does anyone have a sense of what it would actually cost to, say, set up a basic LAMP server and play with it for a few days with only traffic coming from a small pool of people (i.e. a small office)?
I am also curious if anyone else is hesitating for the same reason.
The cost is about $2.75 a day net for a good amount of traffic. There is a calculator on the Amazon Web Services Tools section.
$2.75 is starbucks money!
Perfect. I hadn't seen the calculator.
Thanks a ton for writing this up and giving that bit of useful info.
Good day Ted,
What IDE is used for Flash, Acrobat Reader, etc...development?
Thanks.
marshall
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What IDE is used for Flash, Acrobat Reader, etc...development?
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I mean to develop the authoring tools? Not to develop .swf's or .pdf's
marshall
Ted, you need to share this AMI with us, or at least one that runs Coldfusion 8 alone! Please!!!
Thanks,
Alexander
Thanks for the write up. With the EC2 do you run a CF server instance on each machine? It sounds like that is what is going on and with that being the case how does the licensing work on that? In the EC2 case does that mean a license has to be purchased for each instance we are using on the CF standard edition? Thank you.
Yes, please share your AMI with us. I want to run ColdFusion 8 on EC2. Thanks.