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Amazon ElastiCache – Memcached server cloud hosting for Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services announces a new product, Amazon ElastiCache – which is basically using Memcached server – a scalable distributed in-memory cache server for cloud hosting services such as Amazon EC2. Check out Amazon AWS blog for further details on Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon ElastiCache FAQ is here. ElastiCache feature set...

Amazon AWS outage in April explained

The Amazon AWS outage on April 21st, 2011 brought down many popular sites including Reddit, Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and Buddy Events app for Facebook. There’s been many blogs and web sites with write ups analysing the reasons why the Amazon AWS outage occurred but I came across what I consider...