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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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What techniques do you use to design and scale a web app horizontally (in EC2)?

Specifically I'm looking for techniques for scaling a web application which has no central database server, in the cloud, but general advice is great. I have come across GlusterFS, which looks great, but I'm not yet clear how it fits into the…
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What is the difference between VPS and cloud hosting?

I have tried reading several resources on the internet about cloud computing and VPS but can not see the difference of it. Can anyone explain what is the difference between cloud computing and VPS? IT seems they are both the same as you need to use…
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Capabilities and pricing of Amazon's cloud computing platform?

I'm finding it very hard to estimate how much my web application might cost running in Amazon's cloud? My app is similar to stackoverflow.com - asp.net, ajaz, sql database. Can anyone estimate how much it might cost to run stackoverflow in Amazon's…
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How Can I Virtualize An Ubuntu Server Into A Windows OS Inside Amazon EC2?

I would like to use a windows desktop inside the Amazon EC2 cloud, but their prices for windows are too high. Please provide step by step instructions to virtualize a windows OS inside of an Ubuntu EC2 instance. I want to start up my ubuntu instance…
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In cloud, is it possible to access guest VM from host machine?

In KVM, it is possible to access the guest machine from the host machine. For example, you can SSH to the host machine and then access the guest VM by virsh console vm_name. Is that possible in cloud? If yes, how? If not, why? Edit: I mean if you…
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How To Automatically Login To Ubuntu On Amazon's EC2 Service?

< NEW > My apologies, I didn't explain my goal very well. I want to automatically "log onto" and start running any given program under a user account in Ubuntu. I guess this has very little to do with EC2 in particular. For example, in windows…
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Can anyone recommend a legacy hosting cloud platform?

I'm looking to build a cluster of test machines that run XP, Vista and Win7 with 32/64 bit versions but I'd like to build these into a cloud system. Looking at EC2 I can't install XP and I can't see any others that provide this. So, does anyone know…
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Possible exposable asset type on Google Cloud

One of the ways to secure a cloud environment is to monitor all of the assets that we have. Recently, I made a script to get information regarding those assets by using GCP API, but I need to do it one by one, for each asset by using the describe…
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Downgrade Google Identity Platform back to Firebase Authentication

We used Firebase Authentication and were happy about it. Then I clicked the "migrate to Identity Platform" button — but that was a mistake. We don't use any of the advantages but end up paying the fees. How can I downgrade it back to Firebase…
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openstack aodh charm remains in waiting state “'shared-db' incomplete”

please I need your help, We are running a platform built on the openstack framework(Rocky). Recently we decided to install the Aodh service on our platform so as to enable autoscaling with Heat. Our infrastructure is running mysql/percona-cluster in…
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Are oversubscription and overcommitment the same?

I see the terms being used together in the context of QoS and compute resource usage in the cloud, but I am lacking a formal definition of the terms and how they relate. For example, this documentation states: In an overcommitted environment, it is…
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What are the implications of a cloud instance not being IPv6-supported

I am going to be reserving a cloud server instance. If I am simply pulling data from a websocket and communicating with a normal REST api, does an instance type not supporting IPv6 have any implications? I'm looking at Alibaba Cloud and some of…
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Server cost CPU time vs HDD space

I was thinking about how apps scale and what ends up costing the most CPU time or HDD space. I know this question is a vague question and depends on the type of app but if anyone has experience with applications at scale please share your…
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google compute engine boot disk is full and ssh shell not responding

how to attach with new disk space and extend to file system with gcloud cli. vm instance ssh not responding and i tried all other ways. i have snapshot image of instance disk. please anybody tell me how to attach disk and extend file system size. we…
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How to organize projects in AWS?

In our team, we are using AWS as our main cloud provider and currently, we have 3 projects hosted on their platform. We are about to have 2 more projects in the next weeks, but first, we want to organize our projects, because our current…
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