How can size of the root disk in Google Compute Engine be increased?
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What is the difference between Cloud, Grid and Cluster? [closed]
Cluster differs from Cloud and Grid in that a cluster is a group of computers connected by a local area network (LAN), whereas cloud and grid are more wide scale and can be geographically distributed. Another way to put it is to say that a cluster is tightly coupled, whereas a Grid or a cloud … Read more
What is the recommended way to delete a large number of items from DynamoDB?
What I ideally want to do is call LogTable.DeleteItem(user_id) – Without supplying the range, and have it delete everything for me. An understandable request indeed; I can imagine advanced operations like these might get added over time by the AWS team (they have a history of starting with a limited feature set first and evaluate … Read more
Force CloudFront distribution/file update
Good news. Amazon finally added an Invalidation Feature. See the API Reference. This is a sample request from the API Reference: POST /2010-08-01/distribution/[distribution ID]/invalidation HTTP/1.0 Host: cloudfront.amazonaws.com Authorization: [AWS authentication string] Content-Type: text/xml <InvalidationBatch> <Path>/image1.jpg</Path> <Path>/image2.jpg</Path> <Path>/videos/movie.flv</Path> <CallerReference>my-batch</CallerReference> </InvalidationBatch>
What is SaaS, PaaS and IaaS? With examples
IaaS, PaaS and SaaS are cloud computing service models. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), as the name suggests, provides you the computing infrastructure, physical or (quite often) virtual machines and other resources like virtual-machine disk image library, block and file-based storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, virtual local area networks etc. Examples: Amazon EC2, Windows … Read more