You may have heard about Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing platform. It’s a way to run virtual computers in the cloud and it’s changing the way a lot of IT business operate. Virtual machines? In a cloud? Huh? Ok, they sound confusing for the non-technical folks. However, it’s actually straight forward. For the savvy who already…
Month: December 2011
Migrating Amazon EC2 Windows virtual machine between regions
Many of you might know of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing platform. If not, check this article I wrote about it recently. Anyway, I had to migrate an Amazon computer from their Virginia Data center to their new Oregon Data center. The rental costs are the same but Oregon is closer to California, so it makes…
Virtual machine performance for software development
I needed a mobile development station in case I needed to jump into code along with my other engineers. I’ve always preferred creating software on a machine with a large keyboard, a full sized mouse and a large screen. However, at present, I need mobility. My laptop is a 2008 Aluminum Core2Due MacBook and for…