{"id":813,"date":"2010-09-28T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2010-09-28T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:11:47","slug":"4-years-on-amazon-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/4-years-on-amazon-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"4-years on Amazon Cloud!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was introduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\">Amazon EC2<\/a> by a friend who gave me early access to Amazon cloud infrastructure before it was launched publicly. Then Amazon announced a limited public beta on Aug 25 2006 (We used to read DDJ, then) and I got my personal account and have been hooked since then. While doing Tejit, I ran a crawler farm with an early implementation of Map-Reduce along with an NLP engine on EC2. At it&#8217;s peak, I had around a dozen instances wired via the <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/sqs\/\">Simple Queuing Service<\/a> for job propagation. I discovered SQS by chance, while struggling with a Java-RMI based implementation for crawler job assignments.<\/p>\n<p>If I remember it correctly, there was only one instance during launch which was m1.small:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the equivalent of a 1.7 GHz Xeon processor, 1.75 GB of RAM, 160 GB of local disk and 250 Mb\/second of network bandwidth. You pay just 10 cents per clock hour<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During it&#8217;s peak and several months before and after I have paid a lot of money to Amazon&#8217;s Cloud infrastructure specially to EC2 and sucked in a lot of bandwidth. Happy that today, I complete 4 years as a paid-user of Amazon! Here&#8217;s a snapshot of my Access Key which was created on Sep 27, 2006! Viva Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-814\" title=\"4 years as a paid user at Amazon Cloud \" src=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/amazon_4_years.jpg\" alt=\"4 years as a paid user at Amazon Cloud \" width=\"498\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/amazon_4_years.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/amazon_4_years-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was introduced to Amazon EC2 by a friend who gave me early access to Amazon cloud infrastructure before it was launched publicly. Then Amazon announced a limited public beta on Aug 25 2006 (We used to read DDJ, then) and I got my personal account and have been hooked since then. While doing Tejit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[311,237,315,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}