Dissecting Amazon Web Services

Just reading this article on AWS and thought I’d share some interesting numbers (in addition to the Quantcast data I shared earlier):

• 52 billion objects are stored in S3 and that S3 requests regularly peak at 80,000 requests per second.
• EC2 is experiencing monthly growth of “almost 10%.”
• Amazon has U.S. data centers in Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, Palo Alto, Seattle, and St. Louis, and international data centers in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. (more…)

Power your webapp with Cloudera, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, and EC2

Ever wonder how http://www.trendingtopics.org/ collects & process the visitor information from wikipedia? This Cloudera Post walks you through the steps of how to leverage various cloud tools to power a process-intensive web application. (more…)

State of the Cloud: Use of Infrastructure-As-A-Service

InfiBase researched top 500,000 websites (based on Quantcast metrics) and their usage of cloud services. While EC2 showed a 9% growth from July to August, less than 1% of all the sites use cloud for infrastructure services. (more…)