Consulting Services: Cloud Computing
What is Cloud Computing?
With any new hype, there are many different opinions on what it really means e.g.
for one opinion read wikipedia
on Cloud Computing
We think it is hard to define, but feel that cloud computing is a Virtual Server
environment that can be started quickly < 20 Min and Stopped Quickly < 20 Min. Examples
would be Amazon EC2,
GoGrid.
Cloud computing properties:
- Able to Launch and Stop one or multiple Instances of a Server through an API
- Root Access to a Virtual Server
- Launch an Instance in Less than 20 Min
- Stop an Instance any time you like
- You control the Instance life-cycle
Amazon Web Services
For our Manufacturing Automation applications we use the Amazon Web Services 'Cloud
Computing'. We have extensive experience with the following Amazon services:
- EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
- S3
- SQS
- CloudFront
- SimpleDB
Computing on the Cloud is easier than you think. We managed to migrate a rented
server with SSL to an Amazon instance in less than 2 days. We now are saving money
and are no longer and stuck with 6 month or 1 year commitments, reducing our risk
of paying for something we might not need.
This also gave us the ability to scale up much quicker. It used to take us about
1 week to get a server online and running for a customer and now we can launch a
new server in less than an hour. These benefits and the reliability has made it
a Ideal solution for us and would be an Ideal solution for many other companies.
We can help you get running using Amazon EC2 and S3
services. We can also go over the pricing and cost involved in hosting on
an Amazon Instance. We have experience in using both LAMP and MS type instances
and getting them running quickly. We can help you in your move to Amazon.
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