Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/03/scalr-the-auto-scaling-open-source-amazon-ec2-effort/

by utnick • 18 years ago

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lpgauth• 18 years ago

Seems like a good idea, but why isn't Amazon providing this by default? It SHOULD be part of the service they offer.

Also, how well does SCALR actually work?

hwork2• 18 years ago

I actually think this is a task better suited as a layer for the interim. As per their new features last week, Amazon is clearly focused on the really hard stuff. What they should probably be announcing next is a guarantee of S3 and EC2 placement within a specific data center. Then things get really interesting. Maybe Amazon could integrate this project in their services at some point... but for now, it seems best on its own.

gojomo• 18 years ago

Re: "What they should probably be announcing next is a guarantee of S3 and EC2 placement within a specific data center. Then things get really interesting."

This appears to be what their new 'availability zones' feature provides.

bdr• 18 years ago

This could be one of those new layers of abstraction that accelerates the entire field.

iamelgringo• 18 years ago

I was wondering how long something like this would take to build. If you can configure something like this to be specific for say... media streaming, you can say "goodbye" to all those content delivery networks.

wmf2• 18 years ago

I thought half the benefit of CDNs was reduced latency, which AWS does not provide.

lux2• 18 years ago

I keep hearing comments about AWS and latency, but I haven't used it (yet!) so I don't have any first-hand experience. I've seen that S3 can provide direct public links, but are there latency issues that make these too slow for general purpose content serving?

sah• 18 years ago

I was disappointed to read that Scalr requires its own machine images. I'd prefer a generic component that I could hook up to my own existing images. (Which aren't even web servers...)

Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

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