What is Amazon Web Services, Elastic Compute Cloud?

Discussion in 'Cluster Computing' started by mrkool, Jan 22, 2011.

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    - are there service like a normal webhosting company?
    - Can we host normal websites/CMS/Wordpress/Joomla etc on Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or Simple Storage Service (S3)?
     
    Last edited: Jan 22, 2011
    mrkool, Jan 22, 2011 IP
  2. ideamine

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    Hi,

    Amazon EC2is same like a VPS or dedicated servers. You can get your preferred OS and packages. Amazon S3 is for file storage and backup.The Advantage is that you can scale up resources if you need more anytime.
     
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    mrkool Active Member

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    Thank you ideamine
     
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    IMO its an over priced system that doesn't serve many users unless you have millions of downloads in seconds.

    You can get an even better service via a true cloud system running an OS on cloud server systems.
     
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    cloud sysems are just hype
     
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    No, they're not. AWS is a great product, and a true cloud system, unlike many who just use the term "cloud" as a marketing buzzword.

    They have a lot of great services for high-availability, scalable applications. And yes, you can host normal sites like Wordpress or Joomla on them.
     
    jcsrv, Jul 12, 2012 IP