History of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon added three new features on March 27, 2008. These features included static IP addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels. Amazon added Elastic Block Store (EBS) on August 20, 2008. This provides persistent storage, a basic feature that had been lacking since the service was introduced.
Amazon Cloud EC2 is in full production since it dropped the beta label on October 23, 2008. On the same day, Amazon announced the following features: a service level agreement for EC2, Microsoft Windows in beta form on EC2, Microsoft SQL Server in beta form on EC2, plans for an AWS management console, and plans for load balancing, autoscaling, and cloud monitoring services. These features were subsequently added on May 18, 2009.
Amazon EC2 was mostly developed by a team in Cape Town, South Africa. The team was led by Chris Pinkham. Pinkham provided the initial architecture guidance for EC2 and then built the team and led the development of the project. Other members of the early team included Chris Brown, Quinton Hoole, Roland Paterson-Jones and Willem Van Biljon.
Amazon's new Cloud Drive rains on everyone's parade
So far, so innocuous. It's not the online storage business that has Apple, Google & Co spitting feathers, but the Amazon Cloud Player which goes along with the digital locker. If you buy music from the company's vast MP3 store, then it's stored for free in the locker, whence it can be streamed to your computer – and, more importantly, to any Android phone or tablet via a special app created by Amazon. You can also upload the contents of your music library to Cloud Drive (though you will have to pay for space over 5GB). This means users will be able to stream "their" music for free.
Watching these developments, the musician David Bowie must be feeling a warm glow of justification. In 2002 he predicted that music would, one day, "become like running water or electricity". Bowie had recognised that iPod users were, in effect, the audio equivalent of travellers to primitive countries who carry bottled water because public supplies are unsafe. In a comprehensively networked world, he surmised, people would eventually become more relaxed about carrying their own bottled music: when they needed it, they would just get it streamed from the network Next >
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
A user can create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed, paying by the hour for active servers, hence the term "elastic". Amazon Cloud EC2 provides users with control over the geographical location of instances that allows for latency optimization and high levels of redundancy. For example, to minimize downtime, a user can set up server instances in multiple zones that are insulated from each other for most causes of failure such that one backs up the other.
Advantages and disadvantages of using cloud computing
- More efficient because it uses a low budget for resources;
- Make more eglity, can easily be oriented to profit and rapid development;
- Make operational and management easier, possible because of personal or corporate systems that are connected in a single cloud can be easily monitored and regulated;
- Koloborasi make a trusted and more slender;
- Assist in suppressing the operating costs of capital costs as we increase the reliability and critical information systems we build.
But in addition to many benefits, but there are also effects that can be generated by using cloud computing, including:
- The data that we upload to a database where we do cloud computing, in case of maintenance and can not be repaired, most likely our data will be lost and can not return;
- Requires a fairly fast internet connection;
- Security issues in the hack-prone data.
Hopefully the above explanation can give inspiration to improve the safety and comfort in performing a computation as well as provide insights into cloud computing itself.
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