In late 2009 and early 2010 I worked on a very interesting cloud computing project. In the process I accrued a fairly comprehensive link list on the topic, which I already briefly mentioned here. The list was also published on the blog of my back then employer, but since the company doesn’t exist anymore and their site is offline, I figured I might as well put it up here. The gist where I originally collected this is still on GitHub, feel free to fork, add etc.
Cloud Providers
- Amazon Web Services
- Elastic Server
- Eucalyptus
- GoGrid
- Google App Engine
- Linode - Xen VPS Hosting
- Microsoft Azure
- PiCloud
- Rackspace
- Slicehost
- VWware vCloud
- Netmonic
General / Architecture
- EC2 Architecture
- Cloud Climate
- AWS Pricing Calculator
- EC2 Cost Comparison Calculator
- The Economics of the AWS Cloud vs. Owned IT Infrastructure
- Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices
- cloud exchange - Spot instance prices comparison
Getting Started
- Amazon EC2 Tutorial Video
- Creating a new EC2 AMI from VMware or VMDK files
- Creating an EBS-backed AMI from an S3-backed AMI
- amazon ec2 - boot from ebs and ami conversion
Security
- Cloud Security Alliance
- What Everyone Ought To Know About Cloud Security
- Cloud Computing Risk Assessment
- AWS Security Whitepaper
Programming / Libraries
- EC2 API
- boto - Python interface to AWS
- Net-Amazon-EC2 - Perl library
- amazon-ec2 - Ruby
- Deltacloud - Many clouds. One API.
- libcloud - a unified interface to the cloud
- GridGain - Cloud Development Platform
MapReduce
- Comparison of the Grid/Cloud Computing Frameworks
- 7 Tips for Improving MapReduce Performance
- SAM SIG: Hadoop architecture, MapReduce patterns, and best practices with Cascading
- Cascading - API for defining and executing complex, scale-free, and fault tolerant data processing workflows on a Hadoop cluster
- Why Europe’s Largest Ad Targeting Platform Uses Hadoop
Blogs
Monitoring
- Monitis
- Cloudkick
- Cloudviz - Graph CloudWatch data
- Cloud42 - Open Source management framework for Amazon EC2