PHP App Engine

http://www.smestorage.com/?p=static&page=labs

You should now see your SMEStorage data and also see the mount point on your visual file system. This then enables you to access your files from all the clouds we support, which includes GMail, Email, FTP, Microsoft SkyDrive, Microsoft Live Mesh, WebDav, MobileMe, Amazon S3, RackSpace CloudFiles, and box.net

http://winnersdontlose.com/?tag=ec2-filesystem-performance

I’ve been posting lately about a tool named bonnie++, which will run a suite of tests against your linux filesystem to determine metrics in 3 important areas: data read/write speed, max random seeks, and max metadata operations. Last time I posted about profiling one of Linode.com’s “Linode 360″ instances. In this article I will profile a m1.small instance on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=705977

scalien.com

Keyspace

This paper describes PaxosLease, a distributed algorithm for lease negotiation. PaxosLease is based on Paxos, but does not require disk writes and does not make clock synchrony and skew assumptions. PaxosLease is used for master lease negotation in the open-source Keyspace replicated key-value store.

http://www.aroxo.com/blog/mattr/2009/11/20/how-to-increase-the-size-of-vol-on-aws/

So here’s the scenario: you’re hosted using Amazon Web-Services EC2 platform. You’ve created a volume to store your data on, and you’ve run out of space. How do you increase the space on /vol using AWS?

Here are the steps which after a lot of messing around and a lot of help about I eventually found to work, some of this is based on this post. This might not be the most efficient way and some steps might be unnecessary and it’s based on a Debian install, maybe that makes a difference, maybe it doesn’t:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/956904/mounting-an-s3-bucket-in-ec2-and-using-transparently-as-a-mnt-point

I’m not using EC2, but I do have my S3 bucket permanently mounted on my Linux server. The way I did it is with Jungledisk. It isn’t a non-commercial solution, but it’s very inexpensive.

First I setup the jungledisk as normal. Then I make sure fuse is installed. Mostly you just need to create the configuration file with your secret keys and such. Then just add a line to your fstab something like this

http://solutions.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=39361&tstart=0

I would like to share my experience mounting a S3 bucket into a Linux EC2 instance.

The steps I followed were:

http://xentek.net/articles/448/installing-fuse-s3fs-and-sshfs-on-ubuntu/

Fuse is a program to mount ‘foreign’ filesystems to your computer. This is how I got an Amazon S3 (simple storage service) bucket mounted on my Ubuntu server as if it were a local folder:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=95362

(there is also s3fs and several other FUSE solutions)