So I finally made it in to the new Amazon Elastic Computing Cluster service – and I can’t wait to really dig into it. I ran through the demo and it worked like a charm. The tutorial and command line tools are excellent – I had no problems getting started and understanding what was going on.
If there’s anything that underscores how cool this service is, it’s this command:
ec2-authorize web -p 80
That, remotely, enables port 80 on all the instances within the ‘web’ group. I’m not even a sysadmin and this makes my excited. Although, maybe that’s why I’m not a sysadmin, heh.
Dave Cardwell (September 6, 2006 at 7:28 am)
I’ve been waiting for my bloody email, and now it arrived I get a blank screen half way through the sign-up process.
Argh!!
Joseph Scott (September 6, 2006 at 12:42 pm)
By the time I read the email this morning about more room in the beta it was full again :-(
Adam Lindsay (September 6, 2006 at 2:47 pm)
I signed up for it, but have been too busy to try it yet. A few things that jumped at me, were, they aren’t persistant, so you have to find storage such as S3. Wonder if you can get MySQL to use S3. Anyways, also no static IP, so this isn’t really good for hosting, just an app server or such. You really need a server in place, and this will help you scale. Thats cool and all, but a little bit more and they could have really made a dent in hosting solutions around the world.
Jordan Sissel (September 10, 2006 at 8:10 am)
Adam –
I don’t think anyone’s written a MySQL backend for S3 yet. S3 isn’t any traditional data storage/access service. Regarding your “no static ip” bit – that’s what DNS is for. Static IP addresses aren’t a cure-all. Non-static addresses are just as good, assuming you have a good dns system. So long as each client can complete one session (say, fetch a webpage), then having a static IP doesn’t matter.
I need to check out the service before I can comment further.