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With a start of operations in March 2006, [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]] (Amazon EC2) allows customers was the first to market. It runs on the infrastructure that runs [[Amazon.com]]'s electronic storefronts, both for Amazon itself and third parties. | With a start of operations in March 2006, [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]] (Amazon EC2) allows customers was the first to market. It runs on the infrastructure that runs [[Amazon.com]]'s electronic storefronts, both for Amazon itself and third parties. | ||
EC2 allows virtual appliances to be built from choices among operating systems, data bases, web servers, etc. Amazon offers a variety of preconfigured stacks called ''Amazon Machine Images (AMI)'', such as:<ref name=AmazEC2>{{citation | EC2 allows virtual appliances to be built from choices among operating systems, data bases, web servers, etc. Amazon offers a variety of preconfigured stacks called '''Amazon Machine Images (AMI)''', such as:<ref name=AmazEC2>{{citation | ||
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*Basic Microsoft | *Basic Microsoft Amazon Elastic Compute CloudWindows Server 2008]] (32- or 64-bit) | ||
*Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008 Standard | *Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008 Standard | ||
*Windows Server 2008 (32 or 64-bit) with SQL Server 2008 Express + IIS + ASP.NET | *Windows Server 2008 (32 or 64-bit) with SQL Server 2008 Express + IIS + ASP.NET | ||
*Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server Express + IIS + ASP.NET (64bit); Windows and SQL Server Express image (64 bit) | *[[Windows Server 2003]] R2 and SQL Server Express + IIS + ASP.NET (64bit); Windows and [[SQL Server Express]] image (64 bit) | ||
*Getting Started on Microsoft Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server Express + IIS + ASP.NET (32bit) | *Getting Started on Microsoft Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server Express + IIS + ASP.NET (32bit) | ||
*Microsoft Web Platform - Wordpress | *Microsoft Web Platform - [[Wordpress]] | ||
*Microsoft Web Platform - Media Server | *Microsoft Web Platform - Media Server | ||
*Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server 2005 Standard (64bit) | *Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server 2005 Standard (64bit) | ||
*Basic Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32- or 64-but) | *Basic Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32- or 64-but) | ||
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*LAMP Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[PHP|PHP5]], Apache 2.2, and [[MySQL]] | *[[LAMP]] Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[PHP|PHP5]], [[Apache HTTP Server|Apache 2.2]], and [[MySQL]] | ||
*[[Ruby on Rails]] Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[Ruby]], Rails, RubyGems, [[Mongrel]], and MySQL. | *[[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby on Rails]] Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], Rails, RubyGems, [[Mongrel]], and MySQL. | ||
*Fedora Core 4 with Apache Pre-Installed | *Fedora Core 4 with Apache Pre-Installed | ||
*Perl Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[Perl]], Mason, Apache 2.0, and [[MySQL]] | *Perl Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[Perl]], Mason, Apache 2.0, and [[MySQL]] | ||
*Java Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, Java 5 EE, Tomcat, Apache, and [[MySQL]] | *Java Web Starter: [[Linux|Fedora Core 8]], 32-bit architecture, [[Java Platform|Java 5 EE]], Tomcat, Apache, and [[MySQL]] | ||
*IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1 on Linux - 50 Virtual Cores (32-bit); a supplemental resource management and error recovery system | *IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1 on Linux - 50 Virtual Cores (32-bit); a supplemental resource management and error recovery system | ||
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| date = 8 March 2009}}</ref> | | date = 8 March 2009}}</ref> | ||
* Rackspace’s Mosso in February 2008 | * [[Rackspace Mosso|Rackspace’s Mosso]] in February 2008 | ||
* Terremark’s cloud in June 2008 | * Terremark’s cloud in June 2008 | ||
* AT&T’s cloud in August 2008 | * AT&T’s cloud in August 2008 | ||
Latest revision as of 15:37, 19 July 2024
- See also: Cloud computing
With a start of operations in March 2006, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) allows customers was the first to market. It runs on the infrastructure that runs Amazon.com's electronic storefronts, both for Amazon itself and third parties.
EC2 allows virtual appliances to be built from choices among operating systems, data bases, web servers, etc. Amazon offers a variety of preconfigured stacks called Amazon Machine Images (AMI), such as:[1]
The above are "public" AMIs produced by Amazon. Also available are "community" AMIs, which are customer-contributed and the security of their configurations is not guaranteed by Amazon. Virtual data centerIn early 2009, a customer could organize 1500 virtual appliances into a data center. A number of PaaS and SaaS clouds are known to run over it. CompetitorsCompetition began about a year after EC2's launch, principally from existing managed hosting providers:[2]
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