Rajneesh's Logbook

M. Tim Jones at developerWorks has written an articles on the building blocks for infrastructure as a service. The use of the cloud as an abstraction is quite common for the distributed system that is the Internet, but the past few years have seen this abstraction expanded to incorporate highly virtualized and scalable infrastructures that are easily provisioned as a service (either locally or remotely). This article forgoes an in-depth definition of cloud architecture and its benefits. The article begins with an exploration of the cloud architectures and then moves beyond the building blocks to the more highly integrated solutions. Link: Anatomy of an open source cloud

Amazon is offering MySQL as web service in the cloud. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use. Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period. You also benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your relational database instance via a single API call. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Follow my daily antics, links, tips and more @rajneeshgarg on Twitter!