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Cloud Computing - Amazon EC2

In my last post on Cloud Computing I had discussed about the various terms related to Cloud Computing like SaaS,Utility Computing,PaaS etc.After having a bit clearer understanding of these terms I have now started taking look at the various product and services offerings available in the cloud.To start with I have chosen the following Infrastructure Services provided by Amazon.

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Amazon Simple DB
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

In this post I will discuss about the Amazon EC2.

Cloud Computing - Part 2

Today I attended a very informative session on "Azure Services Platform" from Microsoft.This session was very useful not only in having a basic idea about Azure Services but also cloud computing and related terminologies in general.Exactly defining cloud computing is difficult.Among various articles and blogs the definition provided in this article "How Cloud Computing Is Changing The World" is the one I liked most.

"The term "cloud computing" encompasses many areas of tech, including software as a service, a software distribution method pioneered by Salesforce.com about a decade ago. It also includes newer avenues such as hardware as a service, a way to order storage and server capacity on demand from Amazon and others. What all these cloud computing services have in common, though, is that they're all delivered over the Internet, on demand, from massive data centers. "

Cloud Computing - Introduction

Over the past few months Cloud Computing has become the latest buzzword in almost all the technology circles.I started looking into the details of Cloud Computing only for a month or so now.While discussing with most of my friends and colleagues I have scene there is a huge confusion related to this particularly to those who are from a typical application development background.Actually there are a lot of terms which are been used in relation to Cloud Computing like Software as a Service (SaaS),multi-tenant architecture,virtualization and so on.