Update to EC2 Services

A few months ago I posted some cost analysis on startups using EC2 services from Amazon. Just recently they announced some updates to that service addressing two issues we did not examine.

1. Availability Zones
2. Elastic IP Addresses

Here are a couple of quick blurbs on the new capabilities.

One of the common problems to think about for start-ups is "how do i quickly scale out services".  That is the big draw of using Amazon services. Amazon now allows you to quickly map your static IP addresses to different instances. This is a great feature that allows quick mapping of ips to different instances.

"Elastic IP Addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing, and now make it easy to host web sites, web services and other online applications in Amazon EC2. Elastic IP addresses are associated with your AWS account, not with your instances, and can be programmatically mapped to any of your instances. This allows you to easily recover from instance and other failures while presenting your users with a static IP address."

Geographically located data centers is something most small companies cannot even imagine doing on their own. No problem now, Amazon how has it as part of their services now.

"Availability Zones give you the ability to easily and inexpensively operate a highly available internet application. Each Amazon EC2 Availability Zone is a distinct location that is engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones. Previously, only very large companies had the scale to be able to distribute an application across multiple locations, but now it is as easy as changing a parameter in an API call. You can choose to run your application across multiple Availability Zones to be prepared for unexpected events such as power failures or network connectivity issues, or you can place instances in the same Availability Zone to take advantage of free data transfer and the lowest latency communication."

For more details check out the Amazon details page. Amazon continues to be a very interesting service for the hosting problems many people have with startups.

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