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EC2 and S3 Success Story

I’ve been building systems lately on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). At first, I was only interested in Amazon’s Simple Storage Solution (S3) after seeing the SmugMug slide show.
I hadn’t really considered using EC2 since we had more servers in colocation than I really needed. But I had a file storage problem. When you have [...]

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Flexible Web Services

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.
– Carlos Castañeda
Early this spring, I made some big architectural changes in the company’s website. The two most far-reaching changes involved Amazon’s Web Services and Adobe’s Flex product. Sometimes you regret big changes. I only regret having not made the changes earlier.
I admit that I [...]