The typical virtual machine deployed on Amazon EC2 takes more than 300 seconds to fully start.
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We can create a server using EC2 and install the application for a client to use.
With EC2 we could setup a test environment to try all this stuff out.
There was another EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) outage in April 2011, which stemmed from EBS-related issues.
Silk also uses EC2 to maintain a persistent connection to the top sites on the web.
ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)
This is not the first time this year Amazon has had issues with AWS and EC2 hosting.
Surprisingly, Chip would prefer to get out of the hosting business altogether and move everything to EC2.
The EC2 provides re-sizable computing capacity in the cloud, thus enabling easier web-scale computing for the developers.
With that knowledge, EC2 and Silk together make intelligent decisions about pre-pushing content to the Kindle Fire.
ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)
Like I wrote in my previous blog, there are some small businesses that can really benefit from EC2.
On EC2, available CPU, storage, and available memory can be orders of magnitudes larger than on mobile devices.
ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)
Amazon released a detailed explanation for its massive outage on its EC2 cloud web services last week.
These are the typical applications that Google and Amazon EC2 are able to provide in the cloud today.
EC2 seemed like an easy and affordable way for a small company to take their business into the cloud.
EC2 and EBS, as part of the Amazon Web Services suite, are designed with substantial amounts of redundancy and fail-over capability.
It uses Amazon's EC2 for help, but the real magic comes through a mix of Box's own network and special prioritization.
Amazon first introduced the public at large to the concept of IaaS in 2006, when the company launched its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
This will allow VPC customers to build highly-available applications using multiple Availability Zones just as EC2 customers not using a VPC do today.
In the case of Amazon Silk, it's the connection between the Kindle Fire and Amazon EC2 that creates a better, faster browsing experience.
ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)
The Silk browser software resides both on Kindle Fire and on the massive server fleet that comprises the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)
Silk keeps a persistent connection open to EC2 so that there is always a connection at the ready to start loading the next page.
ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)
Powerset was among the earliest users of Intel 8-core processors, as well as an early user of Amazon EC2 cloud computing and Mechanical Turk services.
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An OpenStack environment would operate like the Amazon EC2 public cloud.
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Silk is different because it learns these page characteristics automatically by aggregating the results of millions of page loads and maintaining this knowledge on EC2.
ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)
For many companies that use Amazon EC2, but particularly web start-ups which live and die by their websites, the incident was a big wake-up call.
In addition to having more horsepower than a mobile processor, AWS has peering relationships with major internet service providers, and many top sites are hosted on EC2.
ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)
The companies, such as Heroku, EngineYard and Dotcloud, provide services on top of Amazon EC2 for web developers to more easily launch and maintain websites.
The site is being built with Unity 3D technology and housed on the Amazon EC2 cloud, but he expects to use HTML5 as a platform someday.
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In 2006, Amazon unveiled EC2, which provides virtual servers.
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