Tag: cloudcomputing
Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer
I posted about this on Twitter, but it’s still a little astonding.
Ars Technica – Apple launches iTunes Match: music hoarders need not apply
Seems like a great deal if you either have a lot of music that is in cruddy versions or are away from wherever most of your music is a lot.
Cloud Computing News – Amazon storing more than 449B objects in S3
That is crazy impressive both the sheer number of objects stored and the growth rate.
Shawn Blanc – Cloudy With a Chance of Music
Ownership and total control over the experience is almost paramount for how I listen to music.
Twilio Engineering Blog – Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issue
Twilio on how to build a service that was able to deal with Amazon’s downtime.
O’Reilly Broadcast – The AWS Outage: The Cloud’s Shining Moment
The article even goes through the process of what it would take to permit you to have stayed up through Amazon’s recent downtime.
With momentum in Europe, Spotify has Apple’s iTunes in its sights – Los Angeles Times
Spotify is iTunes in the cloud, and they should launch in the US middle of 2010.