https://www.redleopard.com/tags/ec2/ Recent content in Ec2 on Red Leopard Hugo en-us Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:09:36 +0000 https://www.redleopard.com/2008/12/ec2-and-s3-success-story/ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:09:36 +0000 https://www.redleopard.com/2008/12/ec2-and-s3-success-story/ <p>I’ve been building systems lately on Amazon’s <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">Elastic Compute Cloud</a> (EC2). At first, I was only interested in Amazon’s <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Simple Storage Solution</a> (S3) after seeing the SmugMug <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/techdude/scalability-set-amazons-servers-on-fire-not-yours/">slide show</a>.</p> <p>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 a thousand files, you stick them in a directory. When you have a million files, you cannot simply stick them in a single directory. You distribute them across multiple directories. What a PITA.</p>