Posts Tagged ‘ec2’
The great bandwidth swindle
This isn’t a new thing. I’ve even written about it before. But it seems to be coming up in a LOT of conversations at the moment. The price that cloud providers charge for egress from their networks to the Internet is staggeringly high. Or as Bryan Cantril put it in a recent episode of his […]
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Tags: aws, Azure, bandwidth, cloud, cost, data gravity, ec2, economics, egress, GCP, Lightsail, pricing, s3, transfer, VPS
This post originally appeared on the CohesiveFT blog Want to do more with your AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)? We have 10 ways you can enhance cloud networking with our virtual appliance, VNS3. First, a quick background on the product: VNS3 creates an overlay networking on top of AWS infrastructure. This allows you to control security, topology, addressing and protocols […]
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Tags: amazon, aws, ec2, VNS3, VPC
Amazon have introduced T2, a new class of low cost general purpose instances for EC2 intended for workloads that don’t drive consistently high CPU usage. At the low end t2.micro offers higher performance, more memory (1GiB) and a lower cost (1.3¢/hr) than the previous t1.micro. The T2 class also offers small and medium sizing with 2GiB […]
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Tags: amazon, aws, cloud, EBS, ec2, iaas, instances, T2
Region locks – My 2¢
Since I started using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy I’ve found that I’m exploiting it pretty regularly. Every time that I see one of those ‘you can’t access that content from your country’ type messages I have a choice. I can give up and move on, or I can fork out 2¢ to spin up […]
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Tags: amazon, aws, ec2, lock, micro payments, micropayments, payments, proxy, region, region lock, SSH, tunnel, video
Using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy
I’ve been meaning to try this out for some time, and my recent trials with Amazon’s US Kindle Store prodded me into action. The theory Popular SSH clients (like OpenSSH and Putty) have features that allow tunneling. Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) normally have some way of being administered over SSH. So… start up an EC2 […]
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Tags: amazon, AMI, ec2, howto, OpenSSH, proxy, Putty, SOCKS, SSH, web
Getting out of the weeds
After some reflection on my recent series of posts about Paremus ServiceFabric on EC2 I realise that I never provided a high level commentary on what each of the moving parts does, and why they’re important. Paremus ServiceFabric – this is a distributed OSGi runtime framework. The point is that you can package an application […]
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Tags: aws, cohesiveft, ec2, elastic server, nimble, osgi, paas, paremus, sca, servicefabric, vpn, vpn cubed
I spent a couple of hours tinkering with this over the holidays, but mostly put it down and got on with eating, drinking and being merry. The first breakthrough was that ContextCubed just worked once I had the right Ruby Gems installed (and in fact day 5 had got me to within one line of […]
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Tags: aws, cohesiveft, ec2, elastic server, nimble, osgi, paas, paremus, sca, servicefabric, vpn, vpn cubed
Between snow, getting some prerequisite scripts and docs a bit too late and various other stuff getting in the way, there hasn’t been too much progress today. I think I have everything set up to launch a complete cluster of Atlas agents in the sky, and get them to attach to the overlay VPN and […]
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Tags: aws, cohesiveft, ec2, elastic server, nimble, osgi, paas, paremus, sca, servicefabric, vpn, vpn cubed
The multicast woes are now behind me (thanks Dimitriy), and I now have a fabric that spans my home network and EC2. The problem with multicast turned out to be firewall related, and the simple fix was: /sbin/iptables -I OUTPUT -o tun0 -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -I INPUT -i tun0 -j ACCEPT Tomorrow I’ll try to […]
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Tags: aws, cohesiveft, ec2, elastic server, nimble, osgi, paas, paremus, sca, servicefabric, vpn, vpn cubed
I didn’t get to spend my full attention on this over the last couple of days, and somewhat as expected I’ve run into trouble with multicast. Right now it seems that whenever I put a node into the VPN overlay network it stops being capable of doing multicast. I’ll report back once these issues are […]
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Tags: aws, cohesiveft, ec2, elastic server, nimble, osgi, paas, paremus, sca, servicefabric, vpn, vpn cubed
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