The BitSource Interview of Eric Hammond (SCALE, EC2)

By Eric Hammond on February 18, 2010 5:44 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Bookmark and Share

Matthew Sacks, of The BitSource, made the mistake of asking me some questions about Amazon EC2, so I rambled on far too long and the results are posted on the SCALE blog:

SCALE: Eric Hammond on Deploying Linux on EC2

In addition to some high level concepts, I point out that Ubuntu is, at the moment, the best choice for a Linux distro on EC2 if you want up-to-date images with modern, consistent kernels.

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