Amazon Web Services and managing our EBS volumes effectively

With Amazon Web Services, you might find that a large Amazon Machine Image (AMI) as with over 1 TB, taken...

SQL Monitor Hosted: keeping an eye on your servers from the cloud

Simple-Talk's Melanie Townsend sits down with Red Gate's Matt Lee to talk about their newest adventure in cloud-based monitoring for...

Introduction to Route 53

AWS's DNS service, called Route 53, is a reliable and cost effective service for managing your domain. It has a...

A private cloud that isn't really a cloud at all

Virtualization certainly has advantages, but using a private cloud means a lot of configuration, troubleshooting, and management; and you still...

What do you mean the cloud isn't free?

Because cloud services are so easy to deploy and scale-up, it is easy to start racking up unexpectedly high bills....

Engine Testing Using EC2

Jeff Foster, a Software Engineer on Red Gate's SQL Source Control product, has recently begun investigating the use of Amazon's...

Introduction to OpenStack

OpenStack is an open-source cloud platform based on Linux. It aims to allow organisations to run cloud services on standard...

Dial in the scale: Amazon’s new DynamoDB

Dynamo is a fast and scalable proprietary key-value structured storage system that gives the features of both simple databases and...

Comparing IAAS and PAAS: A Developer’s Perspective

In the Cloud, services come in the form of Software (SaaS), Infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS). when moving a service...

PHPFog and Pagoda Box: A Look at PHP Platforms

Cloud platforms such as Heroku, AppEngine, PHPFog and Pagoda Box are ideal for companies who just want to focus on...