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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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Cloud hosting: do we need it?

We have a server (4GB RAM, two 4-core Intel Xeon E5420) performing the following tasks: website with static content (currently just some CMS, we plan to add a caching reverse-proxy) customer control panel (basically web interface to a…
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Does Amazon S3 have "sub-directories"? (Rackspace Cloudfiles does not)

In Rackspace, all the "buckets" are one level. Buckets cannot be inside other buckets. This makes it very hard for ORGANIZATION! Edit: does anyone have any suggestions on which one to use...for best organization!? If no sub-buckets , are there any…
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Terraform, ecs service creation fails when using a configured IAM policy

Using Terraform, ecs service creation fails when using a configured IAM policy. Error applying plan: 1 error(s) occurred: * aws_ecs_service.beatthemarket_service: InvalidParameterException: Unable to assume role and validate the listeners…
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Cloud architecture design

I am designing a cloud architecture on AWS for a system processing large number of entities. I hope that this is the correct StackExchange for this question (SO did not seem appropriate to me - feel free to migrate the question). Problem…
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OpenStack multiple compute node resources allocation for single vm instance

Im learning about OpenStack and understand that resources of a single compute node can be allocated and shared between multiple vm instances. If we assume that I have a single application that requires resources exponentially and runs on a single vm…
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Should our web-app go Cloud or multiple VPS?

Let's say we have a web-app and there's an automated/under-the-hood process which updates the DB. At the moment, they all ran in the same server. We'd like to separate the batch-process from the apache activity and the DB: server 1: webserver -…
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Is it possible to let a web application use the combined hardware resources of a few server machines using Apache Mesos?

I am studying a framework called Apache Mesos. I am totally new to this framework. According to this website, it can combine your datacenter servers and cloud instances into one shared pool from which any app or framework can draw, as illustrated by…
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Is there a performance trade-off when using cloud servers?

When compared to a 'real' server does a cloud-hosted virtual server of a similar specification (available RAM, processer, disk etc) have a noticable performance cost?
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System Image Recipes?

I've got a low number of EC2 instances managed, but an even lower time-budget to spend keeping them updated and being able to roll out new instances for tests and application upgrades. I need to be able to easily automate the AMI building, so that…
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Is there a good online backup solution for SBS2003?

I support an environment for a non-profit that is a single SBS 2003 server running Exchange and Sharepoint. They are in need of a decent backup solution that I would prefer incorporate online backups, possibly with local copies as well using a…
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Allow any ip to connect to Amazon Web Services RDS using MySQL

Is it possible to allow any IP to connect to a Amazon RDS instance using MySQL? Explaining my scenario as requested in the comments: Amazon RDS by default blocks all the incoming connections which the incoming IP is not listed in the AWS security…
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Is Apple going to miss out by not allowing to virtualise Mac OS X?

As far as I know you are not legally allowed to virtualise Mac OS X. Recently Amazon added Windows support to EC2 so you can now run Windows, Solaris, BSD and Linux instances in the cloud. With Apple not allowing Mac OS X to be visualised, is Apple…
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How do you do Cloud ROI analysis? Are you moving to cloud, and if so, which systems first?

Azure just released pricing a little while ago. And today I got a mail from Amazon advertising their cloud-based CDN. I feel like cloud-based systems are coming, but not yet ready for mainstream IT systems. I'd like to gain some experience with…
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Cloudify: bootstrap-localcloud: operation failed?

OS: Gentoo, CentOS Version: 2.1.0 Follow the quick start guide, I got the below error when running bootstrap-localcloud: cloudify@default> bootstrap-localcloud STARTING CLOUDIFY MANAGEMENT 2012-05-30 14:55:50,396 WARNING…
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How big is a cloud?

I'm trying to come up with some data on how much computing power the current cloud platforms represent. (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Google App Engine. Others?) Stuff like how many physical/virtual machines, storage space. How…
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