YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Hockeyapp – For collecting crash reports from mobile devices and distributing apps for some platforms. Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Test Flight – Managing deployments and beta testers of iPhone apps in development. Backend Support. Amazon S3 – Long term, reliable storage.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 27, 2011
Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. He mentioned that an idea is worth nothing and often times fails because lack of distribution channel.
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SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. Salesforce is good for distribution - can access their user base. Many other types of applications where Ruby makes complete sense.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. The larger ones also do more to hold CEO summits, create recruiting databases, set up email distribution lists, create pools of stock options that can be shared across companies, etc.
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 27, 2009
Phase 3 - Googlization of IT - have as much of your infrastructure as you can run like Google's - distributed, commodity-based, and in the cloud on a private basis. Yes there are public clouds like Amazon EC2 which is now also offering virtualized private clouds.
techblog.netflix.com
NOVEMBER 26, 2011
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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