Today, Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that it has achieved Level 1 compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). Merchants and other service providers can now run their applications on PCI-compatible AWS technology infrastructure to store, process, and transmit credit card information in […]
This article is a translation of a post by Frédéric Faure (system architect at Ysance) on the differences between using a cloud computing infrastructure such as AWS and building your own physical one. We report it because we believe the article is very correct. I have noticed many questions about the differences inherent in the […]
As part of the annual exercise of the Trident Warrior U.S. Navy, Dataline LLC successfully demonstrated that a standard onboard communication infrastructure can be used to manage Amazon, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Simple Storage Service (S3) services. The experiment presented during a planned failure at a Trident Warrior lab period, Dataline Secure Cloud Computing […]
EBS : Elastic Block Storage, one of the web services that we believe is fundamental for a self-respecting cloud computing infrastructure, now allows booting. What is EBS: A service capable of creating a storage volume that we can link to an EC2 server instance, is defined as persistent to differentiate it from the storage with […]
For some time we have been observing the Eucalyptus project, precisely since it was an open only project, there is also a recent commercial section to offer companies the support to switch their datacenter to Cloud Computing logic. The project was born as an emulation of Amazon’s Cloud Computing infrastructure, in the sense that it […]
Yesterday Microsoft published the price-model for its Windows Azure Cloud. What’s interesting about the model is that it appears to be very similar to the Amazon Web Services model. Amazon is asking for $12.5 cents for each hour of a Windows Server base, in contrast to Microsoft has stated that the price will be 12 […]
Despite the draft definition of NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, we continue to talk about Cloud Computing as if it were the technology capable of doing everything. One of these much-mentioned features is the alleged innate scalability of the technology, so let’s start with a proper understanding of scalability first: We can define […]