Amazon now renting physical servers you can cuddle and love This is different from hosting how exactly? Amazon Web Services has flicked the switch on “EC2 Dedicated Hosts” - a new cloud service that offers “physical servers fully dedicated for your use.” The new service applies to over 30 variations of the instance types in the M4, C3, C4, G2, R3, D2, and I2 instance types and can run …
With the now-apparent problems of moving data between private and public clouds in the hybrid cloud model, is this the future of the private cloud...rented long-term gear in AWS hosting space?
This likely puts the remaining hosting companies into a death spiral, but smart CIOs will see that this assured renting is no different form using hosted gear to make a private cloud.
Will storage follow down this path too....I'd bet on it. We do live in interesting times.
Really? You could commission servers with networking, 100TB of storage, backup and databases on another continent where you have no staff in 20 mins. That's impressive.
I did just that two weeks ago on AWS, took two hours though because I don't have it properly scripted. Will be doing the same on Google next week.
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Private Desktop, Own Server with cloud like synchronising functionality, et al, to the general user base?
Meh.
It all comes down to the same tiresome set of variables sadly. People don't like to pay as they for the most part believe computing and internet should be as free as possible. And it is exactly that freedom that is going to put the general public at large in the cavernous hole of never owning their own data and general computing experience. The international firms have this all sown up with sharp marketing and "cheap now" price tags.
Good luck if you can shift a user license on the private desktop though - might be more scaleable than my aspiration to place a server in everyones home with [secure] cloud syncing facility.
How do I market the idea in a way that will make me rich and prevent people from finding out what I'm doing?
I'm currently working on an idea I call "Personal Micro-CloudTM". The idea is that you locate all your cloudy components - processing, storage, networking - inside a single box, which you physically control. The miniaturised version can even sit in a folding terminal balanced precariously on your lap.
All I need is a few sqauzillion quid in seed capital to get it off the ground...
Vic.
What you pay for is a dedicated host targeted at running your EC2 instances. So the M4 dedicated host has 2 E5-2676 CPU's, 24 physical cores and enough memory to run 22 m4.large instances. Each of those will have 8GB of RAM which makes it needs at least 176GB of RAM (and quite likely has at least 192GB).
The whole point is that it competes with dedicated instances. 22 dedicated m4.large instances would be 3.058$/hour + 2$ hour per region. So 5.058$/hour to get the same in US east.
So essentially just another option for people who are into the dedicated instance stuff. As to the difference with hosting: just like for any other instance it is the cloud software. If you feel you can run cloud better privately all the better for you and I agree it will be tons cheaper on the infrastructure side. In many cases though actually managing the stack ends up being resource intensive and hence expensive on the human resources side.
So I take it I can't store all the details from my thousands of carefully vetted, opted-in customers from Europe on it now? Damn, and I was so willing to pay OTT prices for a glorified hosting service.
Amazon, do you know how many Europeans now won't get emails and SMS reminders to claim for PPI scams?
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