DigitalFiz » ec2 http://digitalfiz.com php is my kungfu... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Playing in the cloud! http://digitalfiz.com/2009/11/playing-in-the-cloud/ http://digitalfiz.com/2009/11/playing-in-the-cloud/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:38:03 +0000 DigitalFiz http://www.digitalfiz.com/?p=51 Well I’ve been messing with Amazonz s3, EC2 and CloudFront for a few days and I must say it is a pretty awesome setup of power. s3 gives you unlimited storage, EC2 gives you almost instant access to as many VPS’s as you want(or can afford hehe) and CloudFront makes your s3 data available to people all around the word on a server near them for the fastest speeds and highest availability. Combined together you can have a web service that is always there and always fast. I will be working on tools to utilize Amazon’s web services in PHP and see if I can make some simple easy to use tools to automate a web services ability to expand with demands. Hopefully I can utilize a system to auto start instances(amazons term for a running VPS) based on server loads maybe even add some type of availability prediction to pre-start some instances during known times of high load. the Elastic BlockStore feature of EC2 makes it easy to share the dynamic data that changes so you can have 20 VPS’s using the same database and serving the same data. Adding some features to sync static data to a s3 storage bucket which is connected to a CloudFront distribution should make for a very scalable, reliable and fast system. I have a project or 2 that I think will be perfect candidates for testing this out.

Now I have been thinking about how amazon isnt the only “cloud” service out there and I do plan on making some tools that work with others too just have to research the more popular ones. Looking very for to microsofts new azure system and I think it might be the next step into big things “cloud”wise

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