After investigating Amazon’s EC2 service, we decided to roll out PHASTGrid, our service-oriented middleware, on the cloud. And, of course, just as we went for a customer demo, Amazon had some infrastructure problems and nothing worked.

Nicholas Carr has more details on this:

• Why S3 failed

Bob Lozano of Appistry:

• Amazon S3 still Limping

Just good that we have additional resources for demoing – this time, we showed the same application running on a cluster of Playstation3…

Picture CC’ed by Reza Vaziri on flickr.

Just some notes and links to remember when deploying applications on EC2:

• Server Setup: Setting up an Amazon EC2 server with Fedora Core 5
• Retrieve instance information from within the instance: Using instance data
• Dynamic DNS update from within an instance: Updating dynamic DNS on Amazon EC2
• Ruby bindings for EC2: Amazon Web Services EC2 Ruby Gem

The photo was taken by (: Petra :) and CC’ed on flickr.