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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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EC2 security group settings are not allowing SSH access

So when I open port 22 and 80 in the default security group I'm not able to ping the domain. I've opened TCP, UDP, and ICMP to all and now it works but of course I need to find another solution. What should I be opening?
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Can you have private URLs in Amazon's CloudFront?

In Amazon's S3 storage system you can have sort of private URLs using a special query string and expiring the link after a while. Is such a private system possible using Amazon's CloudFront, which is based on S3?
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Eucalyptus / no bootable EBS yet - any alternatives to Eucalyptus?

I've read a couple of articles that Eucalyptus doesn't support bootable EBS yet. This is a problem since you can't make a backup form an instance like you a able on Amazon cloud or Rack Space Cloud. If you ever reboot the physical Ecalyptus sever…
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What is Windows Azure's equivalent of Amazon AWS EC2?

Does anyone know the equivalent of Amazon EC2 in Windows Azure? Thinking of moving to Azure but we are not looking into rewriting the .NET application, also we do need private VPN to our office. Is there anything thats equivalent to Amazon AWS in…
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Are Amazon EC2 Spot Instances terminated only on even hour intervals?

I'm evaluating Amazon EC2 spot instances, which seem like they will provide a good value for some of our computationally intensive but not time sensitive processes. The concept is simple enough, our instance will run for as long as desired assuming…
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Why Can I Not Create A Micro Instance Of My Newly Created AMI?

I started with a 64 bit version of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic server edition. (using a micro instance on Amazon EC2, costing less than $0.01 per hour) I added GNOME desktop to it and NX server. I re-bundled the instance into a new AMI. Now upon trying to…
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Monitoring System for the cloud?

I need a monitoring system, much like ganglia / nagios that is build for the cloud. I need it to support : Adding / removing nodes dynamically. (Node shuts down, dose not imply node failure...) Dynamic node based categorization, meaning node can…
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Connect between Amazon ec2 and local intranet web services

I have an instance of an application running in the cloud on Amazon EC2 instance of SuSE Linux, and I need it to connect to web services on my local intranet (generally port 80, but also some others) which are behind a firewall. I'm looking for a…
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Amazon EC2 Cloud Infrastructure

What type of hardware and virtualization solution does Amazon EC2 utilize?
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Is cloud hosting, computing, server etcetra a buzz phrase?

I want an unbiased approach towards cloud term that is being hyped today. Is this really a new term, new dimension or is it just a buzz phrase to re-market existing technologies. Personally I think that the term is just being used to create a new in…
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Understanding generally how emails are received / sent (dns records)

So I registered a domain name through google, and I'm going to set up a small server through rackspace's cloud servers. I'd prefer to keep my email going to google apps, rather than have to have my cloud server handle the mail. There's a line in my…
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General questions about Windows on Amazon EC2

I have some general Qs on my mind about Windows on EC2: Don't Windows servers normally have a key/license written somewhere into them, in which case can I not extract this (legitimate) license using a hacking tool and use it back in my own office…
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Windows 7 or Windows Vista in the cloud

Hi I am looking for a cloud-based solution that offers Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP to be served in the cloud using VNC or a similar remote desktop. Does such an offering exist? Is there a licensing solution from Microsoft?
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How secure is cloud computing?

By secure, I don't mean the machines itself and access to it from the network. I mean, and I suppose this could be applied to any kind of hosting service, when you put all your intellectual property onto a hosted provider, what happens to the hard…
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How do I make a Windows virtual machine replicate to another datacenter/cloud?

We have a Windows 2008 VM running IIS and SQL Server Express (it's an all-in-one web application). We need to have another copy at our secondary datacenter site. What is the best way to do this? It doesn't have to be running all the time but it has…
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