Commodity Grid Computing with Amazon's S3 and EC2

Abstract

Amazon.com recently introduced two new storage and computing services that might fundamentally change the way that we provision equipment for both e-commerce and high-performance computing. I learned about these services a few days after I had started looking for quotes to purchase a multiblade server with 10-20 TB of storage to further my own research in computer forensics. Rather than moving ahead with that purchase, I decided to evaluate whether or not I could use Amazon's offering for this real-world problem. My conclusion is that Amazon's offering is good enough for my research and will probably save me tens of thousands of dollars, but the system isn't yet ready for hosting serious e-commerce customers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA486666

Entities

People

  • Simson Garfinkel

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Authentication
  • Availability
  • Bandwidth
  • Commerce
  • Commodities
  • Computational Forensics
  • Computations
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computers
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Centers
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Internet
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Virtual Machines
  • Websites

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  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Economics
  • Educational Psychology