TechEmpower

APRIL 5, 2013

On Tuesday of this week, we kicked off a pair of EC2 instances and a pair of our i7 workstations to produce updated data. We dive right in with the EC2 JSON test results, but please read to the end where we include important notes about what has changed since last week. First up is data from the EC2 m1.large instances. Repeating its performance from last week, the Netty platform holds a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2. For database access tests, we considered dropping Cake to constrain our EC2 costs. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large instances for the EC2 tests.

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deal architect

APRIL 21, 2013

on the New Florence blog Mail Catalogs: Ben Franklin is looking down in awe Rocket Ship Radio Innovations Outdoor Advertising evolves and thrives Reexamining scientific truths Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Rex, the Bionic Man The Big Data of Pi. Innovative Business Uses of Technology

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 31, 2013

One particularly interesting anomaly is the dominance of Windows paired with Mongo on EC2 in the Updates test. The performance is only slightly lower than the same pairing on i7, where in most cases our i7s (2600K workstations, to be precise) and EC2 (m1.large) instances differ by a factor of seven or more. It''s possible the Windows EC2 instance is running on a newer host than the Linux EC2 instance, but both are classified as m1.large.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2. For database access tests, we considered dropping Cake to constrain our EC2 costs. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large instances for the EC2 tests.

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TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

We''ve included Windows on EC2 results as a separate set of data within the results view but caution that the results should be considered preliminary. Equipping the i7 workstation with a high-performance SSD has given the database updates test the largest performance gulf between our physical hardware and EC2 m1.large. Prior to installing the SSD, the i7 hardware with traditional magnetic disks was only two to three times quicker than the EC2 instances.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

We retired our in-house i7-2600K hardware environment for Round 10, and we changed our Amazon EC2 environment to c3.large instances. Go remains a strong performer in the smaller-server scenario as demonstrated by our EC2 c3.large environment. Round 10 of the Framework Benchmarks project is now available! It has been a little less than a year since the previous round and in that time, approximately 133 contributors have made 2,835 git commits.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Furthermore, due to the modestly rushed nature (at least on our side) of Round 12, we elected to not capture Amazon EC2 results for this Round. Round 12 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! A race against the clock. Recently, we were notified that the physical hardware environment we have used for Rounds 9 through 12 will be decommissioned imminently.

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TechEmpower

MAY 2, 2013

Onion , a C platform contributed by Coralbits is now included in the EC2 JSON serialization test and the results are extremely impressive, clocking in over 52,000 JSON responses per second. We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. As with previous rounds, the developer community has contributed several additional frameworks for Round 4, bringing the total to 57!

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

business start-up tips Strategy Technology cloud cloud computing ec2 rackspace s3 small business smallbizFive years ago, a small business launching a new online product would traditionally have purchased their own servers and software, or leased servers, software and hosting services from one of many hosting providers around the world. The cloud has changed the way individuals and organizations of all sizes leverage technology.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 22, 2013

Openresty takes the lead for multiple queries on EC2. We''ve previously posted two rounds of results of benchmarking many web application platforms and frameworks. The community''s response remains strong! We have really enjoyed your comments, advice, questions, criticism, and pull requests. Speaking of pull requests, we received tests for several additional frameworks since Round 2 and we have posted Round 3. Thanks to those contributions, the number of tests has grown to over 50.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

The most popular AWS services for SaaS providers are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. For example, EC2 provides scalable compute capacity in the cloud, making it easy to provision and manage virtual servers.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2014

you''ll be able to see the other test types on Peak''s hardware alongside our i7 workstations and the EC2 instances we''ve tested in all previous rounds. As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. Five months ago, Google talked about load-balancing to achieve 1 million requests per second.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. We''ve just posted Round 6, which includes several more developer community-provided framework test implementations: Beego, Dart, Hapi, Jester, Luminus, Nancy, Yaf, Plack, Play-Slick, and Undertow.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2012

Pinterest now supports 18m users with growth running at 50% per month with the following: Amazon costs are around $39k for S3 and $30k for EC2 (I assume per month). They have 275 EC2 instances. Pinterest is an awe inspiring example of how much can be achieved with minimal investment in tech and people these days. As most of you will know, the enablers are cloud computing and open source software. What is interesting in this case is the power of those enablers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2020

You can run your databases on top of Oracle’s cloud service while keeping the computing parts of your application in AWS EC2. Modern businesses rely on technology to support their operations.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 23, 2007

The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility. This would seem to be a good case for us to separate off matching and making that a more scalable operation on EC2. I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks. Startup Founders really need to see these numbers. And I hope you are not running on Cake PHP when you see these numbers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. What gives?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. In large companies innovators have to work twice as hard – they spend time fighting the system. In a startup, your ideas turn into reality really, really fast. A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. Lots of people have visions. Most are hallucinations.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. In large companies innovators have to work twice as hard – they spend time fighting the system. In a startup, your ideas turn into reality really, really fast. A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. Lots of people have visions. Most are hallucinations.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2010

Currently, the easiest setup is with Rackspace, where Standing Cloud can automatically assign a billing account to you; this easy setup is coming soon for GoGrid and Amazon EC2. In March I wrote about Standing Cloud ’s public launch of a free service to test drive open source applications. As reported today in TechCrunch, Standing Cloud has now launched it’s Business Edition , a service that enables users to also host applications on any of four cloud providers.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

St Pierre currently uses a cloud-based solution for his service – he uses AppHarbor as his PaaS (Platform as a Service) and Amazon AWS (S3, EC2, Simple Mail) for storage, background processes and emailing – although he does says that deploying an application on a cloud architecture can be tricky at first because resources generated by any instances of the application should be saved on the cloud as well.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 23, 2009

“EC2 down”). Why do we need Twitter and Facebook? (esp. after Facebook’s redesign, making it much more Twitter-like). One reason: tweets are 100% public, Facebook status updates are (generally) not. As such, the collective tweet-stream is a great source of near-real-time information. Lately, I find myself searching more than tweeting, mostly to find current info or if others are sharing my current problem (e.g.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. by Ian Smith of Captricity. This is not about running a startup badly, it’s about not doing the things that are not core to your business. The world has changed a lot lately and just about every aspect of a technology company – and especially a web-based company – can be “moved out” to a web-based application provider at a lower cost than doing it yourself.

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Andrew Payne

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

EC2, S3) removes most up-front capital requirements. I’ve become generally negative on most pure software projects. I think it’s very hard to build large value there, for a variety of reasons: It’s insanely crowded; lots of people code these days. Open-source stacks make it easier than ever to crank things out. Cloud-based hosting (e.g. If you’re successful, it’s easy to get copied.

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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. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue CloudI'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform?

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2010

You don’t need an Amazon EC2 or Rackspace account, as with “appliance&# providers. Not long after I posted about Dave Jilk’s experience with the Pogoplug , he started using the phrase “Pogoplug Simple&# to describe one of the goals of Standing Cloud. The idea is that technology products should be so easy to set up and use that the experience is vaguely unsatisfying – you feel like you didn’t do anything.

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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 entire test was able to complete within two hours with a total cost of a few hundred dollars, and these EC2 instances were only in existence for the duration of the test. The time taken by EC2 to create 288 new instances was about 15 minutes out of our total of 66 minutes. startupcto aws ec2 cassandra

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2010

Machines and clouds fail, even on EC2. My first company, Feld Technologies, didn’t have contracts. Instead, we had a one page PSA (professional services agreement) that spelled out in English that we charged $X per hour, would do our best, and our invoices were due upon receipt. We never had a single legal issue with a client, although we had a number of tense moments which we almost always solved successful by “doing our best.”

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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. This is interesting because I personally wonder why Amazon keeps Mechanical Turk and EC2 under the Amazon brand. I love hearing stories of entrepreneurs, it keeps me motivated and there are always great lessons to be learned.

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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. In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. Specifically, Amazon has changed our entire industry in profound ways often not attributed strongly enough to them.

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Guy Nirpaz

JUNE 12, 2010

So far, we’re using various cloud services to run our business: Google Applications – for mail, calendar and documents and our internal wiki Beanstalkapp – as our subversion code repository Balsamiq – as our online mockup service Dropbox for file sharing and of course Amazon EC2 as our deployment environment for testing and production Now days, we’re looking for a good cloud load testing solution.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part five. Parts one through four are here , Syllabus is here. . Week 5 of the class. Last week the teams were testing their hypotheses about their Customers (who are the users, payers, buyers, etc.)

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

When I asked him how he would do it, he quite simply said Amazon – Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Amazon S3 for storage. If you are hugely successful, then you don’t get caught with your pants down because you have the opportunity to quickly load a few more virtualized images on the Amazon EC2 infrastructure and pay more for that usage – bandwidth, storage, and compute time.

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 29, 2009

Computing and AWS, with details on S3, EC2, CloudFront and the other services! I received this in an email today, in case anyone is interested in learning more about Amazon's services in Europe: Amazon Web Services Technology. Evangelist for Europe Simone Brunozzi and Cohesive co-founder Alexis. Richardson will be hosting the next AWS Meetup in London on Cloud. Details of this free evening event are as follows: When: Wednesday. 4th February , 6.30pm.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Let me explain.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Yes there are public clouds like Amazon EC2 which is now also offering virtualized private clouds. Today I took a sales team from a portfolio company to meet with a couple of senior IT executives at a major retail company. Towards the end of the meeting, it started to become quite clear to me the effect that Google and the web has had on IT to date and where it was going.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. This version is the shorter, ADHD version. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3. I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

From a technology perspective, so many parts of the stack have been made easier--from spinning up servers on EC2 and S3, to getting hosted Rails infrastructure on Heroku. It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. Scaling and succeeding is hard, but just to get from napkin to prototype and some users is so much less of a hurdle than it was previously.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. But we are definitely planning to come back and re-evaluate EC2 in the nearest future, as it is excellent approach to scaling your application. AdaptiveBlue Blog Installing is easy!

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Rightscale is an on-ramp to Amazon EC2 and other clouds and provides automate systems management.  Cloud this, Cloud that – the word cloud is clearly an overhyped word and reminds me of the beginning of the hype around hosted models and ASPs (application service providers) in the late 90s and the term SAAS today. 

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