Check out this Computer World article. They’ve got some stories about the following companies/organizations and their usage of data:
- Library of Congress
- Amazon.com
- Mazda Motor Corp.
- The Nielsen Company
Oct 18
Sep 21
For small and medium businesses that can’t afford their own infrastructure, Amazon EC2 is very appealing. In a matter of minutes you can start up as few or as many instances as are required for your job and then turn them off a few hours later when your job is complete. But what if you have a really big job?
ARS Technica has a story about a 30,000 core cluster on Amazon EC2 built by a company called Cycle Computing for a Big Pharma customer. It ran for 7 hours at a cost of $1,279 per hour.
It may be that even bigger clusters have been run on Amazon EC2…
Feb 21
Hacking Netflix offers up a video of information about Netflix’s usage of cloud computing, Amazon AWS.
Oct 28
Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, announces the launch of their new cloud based relational database – the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
Jun 17
Here’s a great article from DataWrangling about using Amazon’s Cloud services to analyze traffic data from Wikipedia. The 320 GB data set is available to the public here.
May 31
Anyone who has every watched Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report is surely familiar with the increased awareness his guests get, referred to as the Colbert Bump. The Director of Advanced Analytics at Juice recently took on the task of trying to prove this lift as a real phenomenon. The analysis shows the Amazon.com sales trend for several books who’s authors appeared on the Colbert Report. Not to spoil things too much for you, but the value of the Bump is a factor of 10X. Check out the full analysis at Juice Analytics.
Apr 02
Amazon has announced the public beta of their hosted Hadoop framework. Using Elastic MapReduce, you can quickly launch as much processing power as needed for your analytics task. Data can be stored on the S3 platform. Sign in to the AWS Management Console to kick things off.
Mar 25
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, provides these tips to keep your database simple and running fast on his blog at All Things Distributed.
Mar 20
I was starting to experiment with Amazon’s EC2 a couple nights ago and it isn’t terribly difficult but it is tricky trying to figure out what steps to take in what order. If you’re looking for a beginners’ guide to cloud computing with Amazon EC2, here it is – EC2 for Poets. This guide details everything you need to do.
Mar 05
Check out the new data sets available via Amazon Web Services
- US Beureau of Transportation Statistics
- DBpedia Knowledge Base
- Freebase Data Dump
- Wikipedia Extraction
- GENBank
