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*[[LAMP]] Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[PHP|PHP5]], [[Apache | *[[LAMP]] Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[PHP|PHP5]], [[Apache HTTP Server|Apache 2.2]], and [[MySQL]] | ||
*[[Ruby on Rails]] Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[Ruby]], Rails, RubyGems, [[Mongrel]], and MySQL. | *[[Ruby programming language|Ruby on Rails]] Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[Ruby programming language|Ruby]], Rails, RubyGems, [[Mongrel]], and MySQL. | ||
*Fedora Core 4 with Apache Pre-Installed | *Fedora Core 4 with Apache Pre-Installed | ||
*Perl Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[Perl]], Mason, Apache 2.0, and [[MySQL]] | *Perl Web Starter: Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, [[Perl]], Mason, Apache 2.0, and [[MySQL]] | ||
*Java Web Starter: [[Linux|Fedora Core 8]], 32-bit architecture, Java 5 EE, Tomcat, Apache, and [[MySQL]] | *Java Web Starter: [[Linux|Fedora Core 8]], 32-bit architecture, [[Java Platform|Java 5 EE]], Tomcat, Apache, and [[MySQL]] | ||
*IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1 on Linux - 50 Virtual Cores (32-bit); a supplemental resource management and error recovery system | *IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1 on Linux - 50 Virtual Cores (32-bit); a supplemental resource management and error recovery system | ||
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* Rackspace’s Mosso in February 2008 | * [[Rackspace Mosso|Rackspace’s Mosso]] in February 2008 | ||
* Terremark’s cloud in June 2008 | * Terremark’s cloud in June 2008 | ||
* AT&T’s cloud in August 2008 | * AT&T’s cloud in August 2008 | ||
Revision as of 08:03, 17 August 2010
- See also: Cloud computing
With a start of operations in March 2006, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) allows customers was the first to market. It runs on the infrastructure that runs Amazon.com's electronic storefronts, both for Amazon itself and third parties.
EC2 allows virtual appliances to be built from choices among operating systems, data bases, web servers, etc. Amazon offers a variety of preconfigured stacks called Amazon Machine Images (AMI), such as:[1]
The above are "public" AMIs produced by Amazon. Also available are "community" AMIs, which are customer-contributed and the security of their configurations is not guaranteed by Amazon. Virtual data centerIn early 2009, a customer could organize 1500 virtual appliances into a data center. A number of PaaS and SaaS clouds are known to run over it. CompetitorsCompetition began about a year after EC2's launch, principally from existing managed hosting providers:[2]
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