Google has opened its application hosting platform, Google App Engine, for all.  Now, anyone can build a web application with the in-built Python IDE and deploy applications on Google’s own infrastructure which is highly scalable and reliable.  When Google App Engine was launched, I had written a detailed post on what you need to know [...]

IBM and Google have joined hands to launch a cloud computing service focused on medium to small sized businesses in the next year.  They will jointly set up a global network of Linux based servers which will use Xen virtualization and Apache Hadoop.
In October 2007, both the companies started deploying their cloud computing platform at [...]

Amazon Web Services, the Cloud Computing arm of Amazon, has launched AWS Service Health Dashboard and Premium Support services for the AWS customers. The Health Dashboard comes as a part of its Basic Support offering and is free for use whereas the Premium Support service is available as a paid subscription.
AWS Service Health Dashboard
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With Google’s launch of Apps Engine last week, Cloud Computing again became a buzzword.  Everyone is seeing and talking about everything to be in the cloud in the near future.  But there are still so many clouds over cloud computing that there is no common understanding about it.  Even the IT folks swear by Cloud [...]

 
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new features for its EC2 (Electronic Computing Cloud) service which are Multiple Availability Zones and Elastic IP addresses.  These two features, as per Amazon, will help developers build failure resilient applications in the cloud.  Basically, EC2 now has become a cloud CDN (Content Distribution Network) which places your [...]