Amazon EC2: interesting papers regarding technical underpinnings

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Tuesday, June 1. 2010

Amazon EC2: interesting papers regarding technical underpinnings

Some of them are not entirely new, but nonetheless interesting

Getting good I/O on EBS volumes
http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs/

Disk I/O tests
http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/06/disk-io-benchmarking-in-cloud.html

Sidechannel-Attacks on EC2
http://people.csail.mit.edu/tromer/papers/cloudsec.pdf

Loadbalancer performance
http://blog.rightscale.com/2010/04/01/benchmarking-load-balancers-in-the-cloud/

Amazon Usage Estimates
http://blog.rightscale.com/2009/10/05/amazon-usage-estimates/

Anatomy of an EC2 resource id
http://www.jackofallclouds.com/2009/09/anatomy-of-an-amazon-ec2-resource-id/
http://www.jackofallclouds.com/2010/02/revisiting-ec2-instance-ids/

Has Amazon EC2 become over-subscribed?
http://alan.blog-city.com/has_amazon_ec2_become_over_subscribed.htm

Details about EC2 hardware infrastructure
http://openfoo.org/blog/amazon_ec2_underlying_architecture.html
http://openfoo.org/blog/amazon_ec2_network.html

The Impact of Virtualization on Network Performance
www.cs.rice.edu/~eugeneng/papers/INFOCOM10-ec2.pdf

More info about underlying hardware:
http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/05/what-is-ecu-cpu-benchmarking-in-cloud.html

What's a "Compute Unit"?
http://huanliu.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/amazons-physical-hardware-and-ec2-compute-unit/

Added on September 9th 2010:
Benchmarking of EC2's new Cluster Compute Instance Type
http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/09/benchmarking-of-ec2s-new-cluster.html

Added on September 17th 2010:
EC2 monitoring: the case of stolen CPU
http://www.axibase.com/cloud/2010/07/22/ec2-monitoring-the-case-of-stolen-cpu/
Posted by Dirk Taggesell in Amazon Cloud at 20:25 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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