Article series on migrating an application/servers to EC2

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Craig Box

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Sep 29, 2010, 10:10:16 AM9/29/10

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Hi all,

Over the past few months, my team and I have been hard at work migrating the Symbian Foundation's hosted services (web sites, version control hosting, source code cross-referencer/index, search, wiki, forums, etc) into Amazon EC2.

Cloud computing is easy when you have nodes that can turn themselves on, request a dataset, process it, and then continue. Working with an application which doesn't even know it's running in EC2 poses a particular set of challenges, but is an increasingly common use case, as people start wanting to migrate their applications from traditional server or VM hosting into the cloud. EC2 differs from standard virtual hosting in many regards, and over the course of the next few weeks I will be posting a number of articles talking about these differences, and how you can work around them. You will learn how we approached our migration, and if your organisation would benefit from doing the same.

The articles are suitable for sysadmin to CIO (and either side of that too); there will be code/config snippets, but there will be discussion about pricing too.

Check out the first post here:

http://craig.dubculture.co.nz/blog/2010/09/29/clouded-house-how-we-moved-our-service-to-amazon-ec2-without-it-even-knowing-and-how-you-can-too/

Comments and feedback are welcomed, either here or on the posts themselves; a talk on this topic is being prepared for presentation later in the year also. Contact me if you'd be interested in my delivering it to your group or organisation!