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For rent: Amazon’s cloud租金:亚马逊的云

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 周三, 2008年4月2日

In a recent article , Talkibie reported on the increase in software and services that are jumping from the desktop to the web.最近的一篇文章 , talkibie报告了关于增加在软件和服务是跳跃从桌面到Web 。 Large, infrastructure-rich companies are enabling this change by allowing smaller web-based businesses to rent scalable portions of their massive computing clouds.大,基础设施,丰富的公司是有利的这一变化,让规模较小的基于Web的企业的租金可伸缩的部分,其庞大的计算云。 Amazon, one of the largest web companies in the world, has taken this concept to the next level with their Web Services division .亚马逊,其中一个最大的网络公司,在世界上已采取这个概念,到下一级,与他们的Web Services的记名表决 To coin a term, Amazon Web Services is making a mark in the Cloud As A Service (CAAS) industry, and their dedication to providing a good user experience is paying off.以金银纪念币的任期,亚马逊网络服务是使马克在云作为一个服务(新加坡民航局)业,以及他们的献身精神提供一个良好的用户体验是获得回报的。

Amazon has created this division as a way to leverage unused portions of their infrastructure.亚马逊创造了该师作为一种杠杆未使用的部分,他们的基础设施。 Their network is massive, designed to withstand peaks of activity, but it’s power is not needed consistently.他们的网络是大规模,设计足以承受高峰期的活动,但它的权力,并不需要坚持。 By renting it out for reasonable rates to smaller companies, they are enabling their customers to enhance and scale applications that otherwise would be impossible (both financially and technologically).租赁,它为合理的利率,以规模较小的公司,他们正在使他们的客户,以提高和规模的应用程序,否则将是不可能的(财政和技术上) 。 As their website puts it, “We innovate for you, so that you can innovate for your customers.”作为他们的网站上的说法, “我们创新,为您,使您可以创新,为您的客户” 。

One new service Amazon is offering is known as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which provides web-scale computing capacity to help developers manage applications as they grow or decline in popularity.一个新的服务,亚马逊是提供被称为弹性计算云( ec2 ) ,其中规定网络规模的计算能力,以帮助开发管理应用,因为他们成长或下降的人气。 EC2 is in beta at the moment, but it works in conjunction with Amazon’s storage, database, and queuing services (code-named S3, Amazon DB, and SQS respectively). ec2是在测试版目前,但它在工程联同亚马逊的仓库,数据库,和排队服务(代号为中三,亚马逊分贝,和服务质素标准分别) 。 For developers, their website explains how to use EC2:对于开发人员来说, 他们的网站上说明如何使用ec2 :

  • Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing your applications, libraries, data and associated configuration settings.创造一个亚马逊机的形象( AMI )的包含您的申请,图书馆,数据和相关的配置设置。 Or use pre-configured, templated images to get up and running immediately.或使用预先配置,模板图像起来立即放送。
  • Upload the AMI into Amazon S3.上传阿美族到亚马逊三。 Amazon EC2 provides tools that make storing the AMI simple.亚马逊ec2提供了工具,使储存阿美族简单。 Amazon S3 provides a safe, reliable and fast repository to store your images.亚马逊三提供了一个安全,可靠和快速存放,以保存你的图像。
  • Use Amazon EC2 web service to configure security and network access.使用亚马逊ec2 Web服务配置的安全和网络访问。
  • Start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs.开始,终止,并监测作为许多实例您的阿美族需要,使用Web Service的宣传短片。
  • Pay only for the resources that you actually consume, like instance-hours or data transfer.只需要支付的资源,你实际上消费一样,比如小时或数据传输。

The service is not for the casual user, as it takes a baseline of knowledge to scale and backup applications.服务不是为休闲的用户,因为它需要一个基准的知识,以规模和备份应用程序。 As the last bullet suggests, Amazon is trying to keep their EC2 service affordable and appropriate to actual usage.作为最后的子弹顾名思义,亚马逊正试图保持其ec2负担得起的服务和适当的实际使用情况。 This is also true for Simple Storage Service (S3), which allows storage and access to any amount of data through the web.这也适用于简单的储存服务(三) ,这使得存储和获取的任何金额的数据通过网络。 Their huge infrastructure allows unlimited objects from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes to be held and retrieved using a unique developer-assigned key.其巨大的基础设施,允许无限的物体从1字节至5千兆字节将要举行的发音和使用一个独特的开发分配的关键。 Users can grant access to others on their team as well, enabling web-based collaboration.用户可以存取权授与他人对自己的球队,以及,使基于Web的协作。

Amazon Web Services has experienced a few outages, most notably this February.亚马逊网络服务经历了数停电,最显着的今年2月。 As TechCrunch notes, other startups (including Twitter) who rely on S3 or EC2 experienced problems as a result.作为techcrunch注意到,其他初创公司(包括twitter )谁依赖于中三或ec2中遇到了问题,作为一个结果。 No doubt as Amazon’s reliability will increase as they perfect their new role.毫无疑问,作为亚马逊的可靠性将会增加,因为他们完善自己的新角色。 Astoundingly, the bandwidth AWS customers use has now surpassed that used by all of Amazon’s global sites combined! astoundingly , 带宽 AWS的客户使用已超过所用的所有亚马逊的全球网站结合! If you’re measuring by bandwidth, that means that Amazon’s cloud tenants are now larger than Amazon’s retail customers.如果您测量的带宽,这意味着亚马逊的云的住户,现在大于亚马逊的零售客户。

As Amazon Web Service’s official blog notes, “There are any number of references on the Web to Amazon’s focus on being the ‘earth’s most customer centric company’.” For this reason, Amazon has opened the flood gates of user opinion, allowing developers to share their experiences with each new service as it’s unveiled.作为亚马逊网络服务的官方博客指出, “有任何数量的参考资料,网页,以亚马逊的重点放在作为'地球的大部分客户为中心的公司” 。基于这个原因,亚马逊已开放的防洪闸门用户的意见,允许开发商分享他们的经验与每个新的Service ,因为它的推出。 “I encourage each you [developers] to read the spec and send us your thoughts on whether the team’s work meets your needs…We’re serious about making certain our Web Services are the best on earth for you, the customer.” And that excellence, in turn, is passed on to the customers of businesses who benefit from Amazon’s cloud. “我鼓励每一个你[发展]要读规格和发送给我们您的想法是否有团队的工作,满足您的需要…我们正在认真的态度,使我们的某些Web服务是最好的地球上,你的客户” 。以及卓越,在又是转嫁到客户的企业谁受惠,亚马逊的云层。

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  1. RBrown Says: rbrown说:

    Take notice of Nirvanix as well, they are a serious competitor in the Cloud storage sector.采取通知nirvanix以及,他们是一个严重的竞争者在云存储部门。 They have way more features than Amazon, they also say their service is much faster.他们的方式更多的功能,比亚马逊,他们也说,他们的服务是快得多。
    they even have a page of their site devoted to how they match up against amazon他们甚至有一个网页在其网站上专门讨论他们如何配合对亚马逊
    http://www.nirvanix.com/comparison.aspx http://www.nirvanix.com/comparison.aspx

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