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reliability
Amazon S3: no outage
When I talk to prospective customers about the Cloud Storage Engine for MySQL (ClouSE) the question of cloud reliability often comes up, especially recently in the light of the outages in AWS.
Cloud outages lead to a lot of publicity. Cloud opponents jump in with “that’s why I haven’t moved to the cloud and never will”, cloud proponents rebut with “N rules for building highly available applications for the cloud”, cloud competitors call on customers to move to their cloud. But it’s important to look into details, because not all outages are created equal.
Here is the data I found on the AWS outages in the last couple of years:
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WordPress on S3: run it anywhere
Where to host a dynamic website that stores all its content on Amazon S3? Anywhere you choose to.
OblakSoft is pleased to announce availability of an OVF Virtual Appliance with ready-to-run WordPress on S3: Yapixx. Now WordPress on S3 can run anywhere, not just in Amazon EC2.
Any web server
The virtual appliance is distributed in the Open Virtualization Format that is supported by most major hypervisor software vendors (such as VMware, VirtualBox, Oracle VM, etc.). The virtual appliance (one-file OVA package) contains the same software components as the corresponding Yapixx Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
“WordPress on Amazon S3″, OblakSoft Cloud Storage Newsletter, May 2012
WordPress on S3: run a beautiful website on Amazon S3 cloud storage
OblakSoft is proud to introduce the 1st ever dynamic WordPress site running on top of Amazon S3: Yapixx. Now you too can launch your own beautiful website on Amazon S3.
While Yapixx stands for Yet Another Picture Sharing Site, it is actually one of a kind. Yapixx is WordPress that was moved to run on top of Amazon S3 storage without changing a line of code in the WordPress core engine.
