[partly OT?] Amazon S3, EC2, cyborgs

[Dar Scott]

On Aug 29, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> S3 is a prerequisite for EC2. You have to prepare your AMI, then
> upload it to S3 in order to get it into EC2space. This would
> obviously be done outside of rev.

Hmmm.  I know you sometimes challenge the obvious.

The REST interface to S3 seems to be simply HTTP with some tags.  The  
HTTP examples I saw looked pretty straightforward.  Well, looked that  
way to me, I'm new to the REST ideas.

As you mentioned, the sha1 seems to be the stumbling block for S3 in  
Rev, but that can be handled with shell() if S3 is needed in Rev.

As simple data storage, S3 reminds me of Revolution arrays.  One  
could made a uniform interface.

At the time I started this topic, I didn't realize that an S3 bucket  
could look like a scalable web site to the public.  Cool.


> There are also problems in that EC2
> is a linux-only space and there is no current linux version of rev.

Yeah, it seems to be Xen for virtualization, which I assume means  
Linux for now.  I'm not completely sure of that, because I had  
earlier understood that you could load your own Linux and I thought  
Xen needed a modified Linux as a client OS.

I have heard there are delays in getting computers started.

Dar Scott