Elastician

Today is my last day at Amazon Web Services. I have accepted a position as Director of Cloud Operations at Scopely . Scopely is an L.A.-b...

I'll apologize up front for that horrible pun in the title.  No excuse, really. After 18 months at Eucalyptus, the best private cloud ...

If you are an AWS user with EC2 instances running, you may have already gotten an email from AWS informing you that your instance(s) will be...

I recently did some analysis of the EC2 API.  I wanted to look at the API over time so I could remember which API requests were added in ea...

I recently completed a short book for O'Reilly called " Python and AWS Cookbook ".  It's a collection of recipes for so...

I wonder how many times I've been asked that question over the years.  Often, it's not even in the form of a question (Sorry, Mr. Tr...

The Eucalyptus Community Cloud (ECC) is a great resource that allows you to try out a real cloud computing system without installing any so...