Amazon version of Rackspace's cloud sites? [closed] - amazon-ec2

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I was wondering if any of you know an Amazon version of cloud sites from rackspace. I know they have services similar to cloud servers and files but not this?
Basically, I'm looking for a scalable web server managed by them, *** but (this is what cloud sites can't do) I want to still be able to do things in the backend and install other apps etc.. (like my own server)?
thanks

Amazon does not offer any managed hosting services. What they provide is infrastructure-as-a-service, the barebones level services for building on top of. They offer no management services. This stuff is meant for low level developers / system administrators to build the higher level systems on, not your average web hosting customer.

Amazon's new Elastic Beanstalk offers something closer to Rackspace Cloud Sites, but is currently limited to Java sites.

I have a new Platform as a Service (SaaS) in the works to offer multiple languages/frameworks on top of AWS to the general public. Check it out...
http://www.mojoengine.com

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Best AWS server for eCommerce [closed]

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I'm trying to deploy my Laravel app to AWS server and I got two options:
ECS services which allow me to use docker to manage the number of services I need (Ram, CPU ..etc)
AWS eCommerce Platform to set monthly plan services (static number of Ram, CPU, and storage according to the plan)
So which one should I use for my e-commerce platform? comparing should contain:
performance: which one is better to deal with API requests (I heard docker slows down the processing)
price: is it safer to choose a monthly plan instead of cost by view or resources?
security: AWS offers more security options on the AWS e-commerce platform
The issue with managing your own instance is that you have to work out security aspects deeply especially if you are handling payments or credit card information. Considering e-commerce site this may be at the core of requirement. Personally i will go for a managed service rather than ECS, as you be spending a lot of time configuring and securing ECS.IN ECS case you have to buy a SSL certificate on top, plus penetration testing to make sure site is secure etc.
The managed platform is hopefully already PCI-DSS compliant and easy to configure.

Differences between Openstack and Cloudera [closed]

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I can't clarify what are the differences between OpenStack and Cloudera.
As I understood, both are software you can install in your own cluster to manage it. But I guess that there are several differences between both, and... can they work together?
Can you give me further information about this? How could I use both?
Openstack is an open source cloud computing framework which is deployed to have virtualization technology in your server and create identical cloud services that other cloud service providers are providing like Amazon, Rackspace and many more.
Instances in Openstack are virtual machines which can be used for services as Amazon is providing to the world by giving computation services. We can even deploy hadoop provided by Cloudera in a virtual cluster created in Openstack.
Using Openstack is like owning a Amazon cloud but free of service.
Cloudera is a US-based company which provides modified, improved and easily deployable apache hadoop. The company is mainly focused on easing businesses to deploy hadoop according to the business needs. The company provides support for their product and provides trainings.
lets say it like this
Openstack is a framework for creating cluster that supports Cloudera's hadoop to be deployed.
OpenStack is an open platform for cloud computing (IaaS).The universe of applications running on an OpenStack backend is ever-expanding.
Cloudera provides Apache-Hadoop based software. It is used for big data.
Both can work together, you can deploy your cloudera cluster with sahara plugin

Which cloud system to choose for spring-mvc project deployment [closed]

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In my company we are working on a spring-mvc based product. We currently deploy projects .war file in tomcat 7 on a server machine (which has its own static ip) to access it globally while the database ( oracle ) is on a different machine.This server machine and db machine are currently in my office.
So basically when we need to access the project outside of our office we access the static ip of serve machine.
Now I have been told by my project manager to find a way to deploy .war of the spring-mvc project on a cloud based system.I don't have the slightest clue where to begin.
What I need is any guidance / document / tutorial which can help on getting started.
Which cloud based system will be best for me to do so? Should I use Convrgd or AWS [Elastic Beanstalk Or EC2] or any other service?
[ Note: I know this is a opinion based question but what I want is opinion on which I could begin to get a clean idea of which path should choose. ]
Let me know if you need any additional information. Any help is appreciated.
Definitely it is a good idea to move your application to the cloud.
There are many cloud service provider(s) are offering the cloud services now a days which you can make use of. like AWS, Azure, Rackspace etc.
Rightnow, AWS is in the leader position in the cloud space. Definitely, you can give a try in Amazon Web Services.
Elastic Beanstalk is a container service where you can easily deploy your application (war) file. Just upload a war file, AWS will launch Load balancer, Auto Scaling on your behalf.
For the database, for now you can launch a Amazon RDS (with Oracle). Transfer the data copy from your existing database to the Amazon RDS.
Hope this helps.
Note:
AWS costs you based on the type of the instance, database per hour basis.

Clearing up misconceptions about amazon(EC2) and rackspace [closed]

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I'm friends with an owner of a small creative business (with multiple departments) and until now they have been using a dedicated server (via a 3rd party) for a lot of internal projects and they've been known to iframe a few small dev projects (like photo galleries, one page sites etc...) off and on for some of their clients (some with hi traffic sites).
They're looking to switch from the dedicated server to a cloud environment. The owner is enamored with amazon's cloud services, but still wanted some alternative options they also want the new environment to mirror the current one as much as possible (linux/centOS, PHP 5.3, mysql databases) but with the ability to scale when desired.
So the misconceptions I need cleared up and questions I have are:
1) I always assumed amazon's cloud service was more suitable for high end high traffic complex web application (Netflix, pinterest, instagram etc...) rather than the typical server use listed above. Is this correct?
2) Is it possible to mirror their current setup on amazon?
3) If number 1 is not true, but they instead chose rackspace, could they run heavy web apps like Netflix, pinterest, instagram on a rackspace cloud server if they ever decided to do something that advanced (is rackspace scaleable in the same way ec2 is)?
1) Amazon AWS is also suitable for this environment, or even smaller ones (they offer instances as small as "Micro", which are far less capable than what you are describing all the way up to GPU compute clusters).
2) Yes. That is a very common setup for an AWS-based solution. In fact, I recently migrated something similar from Rackspace to AWS.
3) #1 is true. However, you can certainly mix what runs on Rackspace and in the AWS cloud. Keep in mind latency and security issues if the two component solutions need to communicate with each other. Rackspace also has a cloud offering, but it is not as mature as Amazons.

Hosting, deploying and running web applications in the cloud [closed]

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So far I've read some blog articles about cloud computing and services for hosting applications in the grid.
If I'd wanted to have a web application running in the cloud for as little cost as possible, what would be the best solution?
Let's assume the following configuration:
J2EE web application
Any free database (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Any web container to deploy the web application to
What application stack would you suggest to be the best combination of services to
host
deploy
run
web applications?
As an additional requirement, the services chosen shouldn't require a lot about server management like firewall settings etc.
This space is changing very quickly right now so I think you will find a lot of different good answers. If I where to do something on the cheap right now I would probably pick the following stack:
Web server: apache
App server: tomcat - use the clustering support if you need to grow or split at the apache level or even introduce a load balancer box at the very front
DB server: MySql - mainly because it is easy to cluster
Platform: scalr - The cloud setup is simple and cheap. It uses Amazon's cloud on the backend and that gets you a lot of extras like putting servers in different datacenters for redundancy.
Now you can add in or remove parts of this. You may not need a web tier out there and can just expose tomcat directly. You may need EJBs and in that case you can just fire up more nodes for that and create another tier. You may want to add a tier for load balancing in front of apache. You may want to use the Amazon cloudfront service to push static files to their edge network.
I have investigated Amazon's ec2 solution recently. It is quite good and there are many pre-built boxes that you can use if you find one that suits your need. I think there will still be some server management involved...you cannot get away from that. But the pre built boxes will make it easier.
The cost is reasonable as you only pay for what you use.
[EDIT] The pre-built boxes are called Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).
I think you can get no where closer to Jelastic. It has all the stuffs that #carson mentioned. Specially I will mention their unique web console and they do not have any dependency for any API or console to be installed. I use their platform for many of the clients for my startup. Also additionally you get a nginx support for load balancing and configuring it right away from the console.

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