Trying Amazon EC2 – waiting impatiently

We use Amazon S3 at PRX for images and more importantly all our audio files. We love it.

What we really want to do is use EC2 – look at the gigavox success story on amazon’s site – we need almost the same things, and want to implement almost the same arch – except using rails and activemessaging.

The problem is the EC2 closed beta – ugh – we’ve been waiting, oh so impatiently. In the meantime everyone shuold go get their feet wet with RightScale. You get 10 hours to play with, even without your own EC2 keys.

This entry was written by Andrew Kuklewicz, posted on May 9, 2007 at 4:04 am, filed under code. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. The EC2 Troll
    Posted May 29, 2007 at 8:18 am | Permalink

    If you’d still like access to the EC2 beta, drop a note to my email address and tell them the EC2 troll sent you…

  2. xasima
    Posted June 8, 2007 at 5:26 pm | Permalink

    Yep, I’ve heard that EC2 is beta and closed. And i wanna use the same service for my own project I’m implementing now. Would you be so kind to describe what the actual procedure to get account on EC2 is set up now. How long do you need to wait. Is it a fixed period after you raise the claim to use this. Do you need to provide the actual description of the project and arguments to persuade the Amazon to open an account for you?

  3. Andrew Kuklewicz
    Posted June 29, 2007 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

    btw – I did get ec2 finally – I’ll post about it soon.

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