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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. Route53 support for WRR load balancing. Weighted Round Robin is a DNS based load-balancing scheme that allows you to select multiple IP address for a name to be resolved to and to assigns frequencies ("weights") to how often the name should resolve to each address.

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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

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Hussey misses grabbing a cup of coffee with a colleague or an impromptu whiteboard session for brainstorming ideas for his network security company. His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

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The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Security policies. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147). September 2011 (135). August 2011 (147).

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2011 04:00 PM. There are several resources required: Elastic Load Balancers, EC2 instances, EBS volumes, SimpleDB domains and an RDS instance. They also setup Auto Scaling, EC2 and RDS Security Groups, configure CloudWatch monitoring and alarms, and use SNS for notifications. Comments ().