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Really Simple Amazon Cloud Watch Example Step by Step

Have you bean in the situation that you want to see something working, just to stop imagining it in your mind? Well this is one of those situations for me. I really wanted to have a good real example of the CloudWatch amazon service. CloudWatch is the new Amazon web service that will monitor and [...]

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Cloud Watch, Real IaaS from Amazon

Cloud Watch is one of three new services just release by Amazon Web Services a few days ago. This service offers hardware (ironic for a virtual server) vitals monitoring for the Amazon EC2 instances. The price to monitor an Amazon EC2 instance for a full month is approximate $ 10.80, which seems a little high [...]

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Experiment with Amazon EC2 Billing and your Data in the Cloud

Introducti on A few days ago a colleague and friend of mine was talking with me about secure ways to have your data backed up and accessible all the time. By obvious reason the term store your data in the cloud came out soon. The debate was among many things: DVD, LTO, CD, External Hard [...]

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Growing and Shrinking Tomcat Workers in the Cloud

Introduction As part of our Cloud Apache Tomcat Series of articles, I have put together a small tutorial to guide people on how to disable, enable, and stopped workers at run time. What you need to know? If you are an apache tomcat administrator or avid user, you will probably find this article useful. Also [...]

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Google's Data Center to the Waters with the Pirates

In general terms Cloud Computing is less expensive than traditional own your own server computing (OYOSC). Mckinsey may report differently, but in general terms is just great to be able to pay for computing as another utility. With Google again thinking outside the box (and the land), they just got approved a US patent to [...]

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