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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

You can run your databases on top of Oracle’s cloud service while keeping the computing parts of your application in AWS EC2. A proxy also offers a way to limit access to the rest of your cloud environment. Attackers will never have access to clusters or containers running internal-only scripts, keeping the rest of the ecosystem safe.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Later, 99Designs was spun off and the rest is history. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. This is interesting because I personally wonder why Amazon keeps Mechanical Turk and EC2 under the Amazon brand.

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Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup.

Software By Rob

Making Open Source Convenient: JumpBox – A startup focused on making it dead-simple to get started with open source applications, they create virtual machines completely pre-configured to just start and go (including versions that runs on Amazon EC2). Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. My favorite points: 12.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

I cant wait to read the rest of the series. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series! Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. That said, I dont think EC2 is reliable enough to depend upon, and the entire reputation of a startup can hinge on that.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

We picked a write oriented benchmark using the standard Cassandra "stress" tool that is part of the product, and Denis ran and analyzed the tests on Amazon EC2 instances. The time taken by EC2 to create 288 new instances was about 15 minutes out of our total of 66 minutes. All instances are created using the EC2 auto-scaler feature.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

Each object, identified by unique key, can be written or read using REST interface. EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly. EC2 is a powerful service, but it is still evolving.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. Did they use bcrypt/scrypt/etc to properly secure passwords at rest, and did they patch these vulnerabilities fast enough to prevent attackers from pulling them off of the wire?

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