Archive for category Cloud computing
Policy for an S3 only Amazon IAM User
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Snippets on June 27, 2011
Now that Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) is more widely known, and you can use your IAM credentials to login to the AWS Console, you might be wondering how to really leverage the IAM offering.
Taking Route 53 to Optimized Website Performance
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on April 11, 2011
When Amazon announced it’s Authoritative DNS service, cheekily named Route 53 a few things popped into my head immediately. First, this should be a much easier way to get the effects of Dynamic DNS which we were currently leveraging DNS Made Easy for. Secondly, I wonder how much of a performance boost using it might [...]
Create AWS Service Accounts with IAM
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on March 28, 2011
I’ve been making use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) quite a lot lately. In order to really enjoy the benefits of Cloud Computing (automation, agility, etc) I’ve had to use a number of tools to interact with AWS on my behalf. All of these external tools ask for the same thing to enable them to [...]
How to host WordPress for Free
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Linux on February 14, 2011
If you’re looking to start a blog to promote your business, or boost your presence on the internet, you’ve probably heard of WordPress. You may also have heard about the benefits of hosting your own instance of WordPress, but you’re intimidated by the idea of setting up and maintaining your own server, or trusting your [...]
Chef for RightScale Quick Start
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on November 29, 2010
For the past few weeks I have been getting down and dirty writing Chef recipes for use in RightScale. With Chef support still in beta on RightScale, and me being a complete Chef newbie it’s I’m still on the front side of the learning curve. If you’re just getting started with Chef for RightScale, you [...]
How I would improve RightScale’s ServerTemplates
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on November 22, 2010
One of RightScale’s key differentiators from other cloud management platforms is the concept of the ServerTemplate. A ServerTemplate is like a blueprint of the server you want to launch in the cloud. It defines things like what software and services will be installed and configured, what will be ready when the server boots, and what [...]
Add Agility to Dev & Test with the Cloud – Managed by RightScale
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on November 17, 2010
Whether you are a small development company with a tight budget, or an established enterprise with some trepidation about wading into the murky waters of cloud computing, RightScale just made it easier to empowering your development and test teams with cloud computing. In late September RightScale announced a Development and Test solution pack. This solution [...]
How to become a Cloud Computing Rockstar
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on November 12, 2010
It’s now the end of my first full week back at work since I attended the 2010 Cloud Expo and RightScale User Conference, and I’m still feeling the motivation and enthusiasm I picked up there.
How to resize billions of images in the cloud
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Linux, php on November 1, 2010
As I was clearing out my RSS reader a few days back, I stopped to read a post on the Flickr dev blog about the “new” 640px image size. In the article they lament that they wished they had made “Large” copies of all uploaded images because it would make generating the new 640px size [...]
RightScale crowd sources value-add content
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on October 25, 2010
RightScale is definitely doing the whole “social media thing” right. They’re active on Twitter and Facebook. The CEO
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