Cloud Services - Amazon Web Services, AWS, Rackspace, Azure, etc

It is tempting.

Y'know, the only person I have punched/grappled/whatever with recently was..... no sorry, wrong thread.

NAS for 100 notes? Where?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nas+&aq=f&oq=nas+&sugexp=chrome,mod=19&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=nas&hl=en&sa=X&tbs=price:1,ppr_max:100,p_ord:pd&tbm=shop&ei=xC-2UIS5Bu-b1AXMhID4Aw&ved=0CHkQuw0oAw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=1fdb8b2c2c377387&bpcl=38897761&biw=1440&bih=775

Actually a guess, but it appears that, in fact, you can get a NAS for £100

Depends on the consumer.

Glacier can be from $0.01 per gigabyte per month.

That was my point

Glacier can be from $0.01 per gigabyte per month.

Been playing around with getting one of our web applications up on EC2 using RDS, S3 and Cloudfront the last few days. I am very impressed with this service.
Not overly keen on the Elastic Beanstalk, other than the name, as you relinquish too much control over where and how the apps are deployed. There doesn't seem to be a way of using the beanstalk to deploy a war file, for example to multiple running EC2 instances. Looks like it's a case of writing my own shell script to accomplish this after a build. Anyone else have experience of these services?

We don't use Beanstalk, we script our deployments to an EC2 instance, then snapshot the instance and use that snapshot to bring up multiple EC2s in the ELB.

So after every app deployment, you take a snapshot of the instance, set this to be the primary instance and use this one going forward?
Do you do this with API calls, an IDE plugin or a shell script calling AWS? I assume you use ant or mavemn for the build?
We normally use Jenkins to deploy or I use maven cargo or release plugins
Just been trying to figure out the best way of doing this today. I'm so impressed with how it all slots together so far.

The deployment scripts will deploy to all running instances but if it's a new site that is being set up we'll manually add it to the first one in the list and manually run a snapshot script. This will then form the basis for the servers. When they are killed off at night then powered up again in the morning (this can also be manual or load-based) they will be based off the updated snapshot.

Its done with a combination of build scripts and bespoke apps that chat with AWS.

We're mostly .NET and deploy to Windows/IIS. Builds use MSBuild. Other stuff isn't changed enough to justify automation.

Interesting.
I figured it would be a case of writing my own post-build script.
Yes. Also with us, nothing will really change on the machine other than the deployed web apps and that will probably be fortnightly release cycles.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/20/lets-stop-the-nsa-before-it-destroys-the-cloud-industry/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/13/the_lambda_that_roared_amazon_unveils_handsfree_eventdriven_compute_service/

Did not know this thread existed, awesome.

I went to AWS re:invent in Las Vegas too weeks ago, was really interesting.

Yeah, Lambda looks cool, but so many other great features too. All EBS volumes are now SSD backed by default, and will soon be able to be as large as 16TB.

ECS Container Service: https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/

A new DB, native to AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/

Config,for inventory: http://aws.amazon.com/config/

Key Management: https://aws.amazon.com/kms/

Code Deploy: http://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/

Code Commit: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/

I love this place; there is a thread for everything. [Found by searching for Cloud, sorry to one of the previous posters in this thread]
Please, does anyone have any up to date recommendations? I'm currently backing up physically and storing the HDD offsite. Looking at the possibility of cloud storage, if it isn't going to work out too expensive. Got about 1TB of data at the moment.

What's too expensive?

Backblaze? $5/month and "unlimited".

@Greenbank thank you. Will look into it.

@John_H good question. up to £15 a month?

Then AWS is probably not for you

Re-invent trip booked! Looking forward to going back to Las Vegas.

http://awsloft.london/

I need to tie a future Re-Invent in with racing http://www.the508.com/

AWS Channel for really boring lunch breaks...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd6MoB9NC6uYN2grvUNT-Zg

Ha!

Anyone going to re:Invent this year?