Category: Amazon EC2

Do you use EC2 Spot Instances in your application? Do you understand how they work and how they can save you a lot of money? If you answered no to any of these questions, then you are behind the times and you need to catch up. I’m dead-serious. The scientific community was quick to recognize […]

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today I’m speaking to Jonathan and Thomas, two of the creators of Scalarium, from Berlin, Germany!   R: Hi guys, could you briefly describe […]

  Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling ShowNearby, from Singapore!   About ShowNearby ShowNearby is a leading location-based service in Singapore and an early adopter of […]

You can now run Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on the EC2 Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances using new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2008 R2 SQL Server AMIs. To reiterate, here are the specs for these compute-intensive instance types: Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large: 23 GB of memory 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 […]

  Although Summer is starting to ebb into Autumn in the northern hemisphere, it’s just getting going south of the equator, so there is still time to profile another start-up in our on-going series of profiles! Introducing Mendeley Today I’m very happy to introduce you to Mendeley, a London based startup that harnesses cloud computing […]

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling Classle, from Chennai, India! I recently read Mark Susters blog on Avoiding Monoculture – which is why Im happy to share with […]

We introduced AWS Direct Connect last month and invited AWS users with a need for a dedicated network connection to the US East (Northern Virginia) Region to give it a try. The service is geared for those who have big data transfer requirements or are looking for more consistent network performance when accessing the cloud. […]

Over the summer months, we’d like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we’re profiling one of last year’s finalists from the AWS Start-up Challenge – TellApart, from Burlingame, California! TellAparts application stood out to […]