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February 05, 2007

Rolling with Amazon

We've been doing some digging in the area of media-centric web applications lately and looking at how services like Amazons S3 or EC2 can be used to offset things like data-storage and scalability. So it's interesting to read this post by Doug Kaye on how he is using S3, EC2 and SQS to build GigaVox Audio Lite.

Posted by Matthew at February 5, 2007 10:14 PM

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I was just looking at ec2 (first time) & s3 (again) to see if I could make an infinite Raid5-like webserver. However; ec2 had run out of beta accounts.

Here's someone posting about having done this: http://teragrid.blogspot.com/2006/08/trying-out-ec2.html

Imagine an infinite, Raid5 /var/www

Posted by: Steve at February 5, 2007 11:36 PM