Monthly Archive for January, 2010

Haiti desperately needs our help! Salesforce.com will double your Red Cross or World Vision donation

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http://www.salesforce.com/haiti/

Please please spread this word (email, tweet, linkedin status,  etc.) and donate even a minimal amount of $2 which is more than what most of Haiti’s population survives on per day.

http://www.salesforce.com/haiti/

HAITI EARTHQUAKE

Help us raise $200,000 for relief agencies

Haiti needs our help. Relief agencies are scrambling to assist up to 3 million people affected by the devastating earthquake that struck the western hemisphere’s poorest country on January 12. As we learn more about the extent of the catastrophe and watch aid efforts kick into gear, you can lend a hand by making a donation to relief agencies on the front lines.

Through the Salesforce.com Foundation’s matching program, you can double the impact of your donation to one of two organizations we’ve been working with: the Red Cross and World Vision. If you donate even $2, that alone is more than what most of Haiti’s population survives on per day.

Donate by clicking the links on this page, and the Foundation will automatically match, dollar-for-dollar, donations from our community of customers, partners, employees, and friends, up to $100,000. That means that with the Foundation’s matching funds, these critical organizations will get $200,000 in much-needed donations.

Together, we can help these relief agencies that are providing life-saving assistance to the people of Haiti.

Give now! Select an agency, click below to donate online, and your gift will automatically be matched by the Salesforce.com Foundation.

World Vision
American Red Cross

Amazon EC2 services

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Amazon recently published a page titled AWS Solutions Pages:

We’ve just put a number of AWS Solution pages on line to provide more information about some of the more popular ways that our customers put AWS to use.

Here’s what we have:

Each page identifies the challenges inherent in the use case, highlights the ways that AWS can be put to use, identifies the benefits of using AWS, and links to appropriate resources.

About a month ago Amazon announced that Amazon EC2 Instances Now Can Boot from Amazon EBS, so you’re not forced to store images on S3, and boot directly from EBS, gaining faster boot time, persistent OS, and other goodies.

A good comparison of running instances from S3 vs. EBS can be found here:
Amazon EC2 Concepts » AMI and Instance Concepts » AMIs

Root Device Instance Store Amazon EBS
Boot Time Usually Less than 5 minutes Usually Less than 1 minute
Size Limit 10 GiB 1 TiB
Location Instance storage Amazon EBS volume
Data Persistence Data persists for the life of the instance; non-root devices can use Amazon EBS Data persists on instance failure and can persist on instance termination
Upgrading Instance attributes are fixed for the life of an instance The kernel, instance type, and ramdisk can be changed while the instance is stopped.
Charges Instance usage and AMI storage Instance usage, Amazon EBS volume usage, and AMI Storage
AMI Creation Requires installation and use of AMI tools Uses a single command/call
Stopped State Cannot be in stopped state; instances are running or not Can be placed in stopped state where instance is not running, but state is maintained in Amazon EBS

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