Sponsors
Many thanks to the supporting Alestic.com sponsors including:
If your company is interested in sponsoring Alestic.com, please contact Eric Hammond at eric@alestic.com
Partial sponsorship positions are currently available starting at $250 per month with visibility at the top of all pages on Alestic.com (percentage of page views based on proportion of premier sponsorship contribution). Companies that qualify gain my eternal gratitude in addition to having their brands promoted to the highly targeted Alestic.com audience, consisting of readers who are actively using or interested in using cloud technologies with Amazon AWS/EC2.
I'm not looking to just sell ad space to the highest bidder, but rather am seeking long term partnerships with quality brands that I can support and promote. Companies are most likely to qualify if they have excellent products and services that relate closely to the subject matter of this site.
Ubuntu AMIs
The Ubuntu AMIs listed above are published by Canonical.
32-bit Ubuntu AMIs are also available, but not recommended.
If you're looking for Debian AMIs, here are some being created by the community: http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2ImageMore Entries
- Replacing a CloudFront Distribution to "Invalidate" All Objects
- I was chatting with Kevin Boyd (aka Beryllium) on the ##aws Freenode IRC channel about the challenge of invalidating a…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (2)
- Email Alerts for AWS Billing Alarms
- using CloudWatch and SNS to send yourself email messages when AWS costs accrue past limits you define The Amazon documentation…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (2)
- Cost of Transitioning S3 Objects to Glacier
- how I was surprised by a large AWS charge and how to calculate the break-even point Glacier Archival of S3…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (10)
- Running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2 in Sydney, Australia
- Amazon has announced a new AWS region in Sydney, Australia with the name ap-southeast-2. The official Ubuntu AMI lookup pages…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (0)
- Save Money by Giving Away Unused Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances
- You may be able to save on future EC2 expenses by selling an unused Reserved Instance for less than its…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (5)
- Installing AWS Command Line Tools from Amazon Downloads
- When you need an AWS command line toolset not provided by Ubuntu packages, you can download the tools directly from…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (9)
- Convert Running EC2 Instance to EBS-Optimized Instance with Provisioned IOPS EBS Volumes
- Amazon just announced two related features for getting super-fast, consistent performance with EBS volumes: (1) Provisioned IOPS EBS volumes, and…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (0)
- Which EC2 Availability Zone is Affected by an Outage?
- Did you know that Amazon includes status messages about the health of availability zones in the output of the ec2-describe-availability-zones…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (5)
- Installing AWS Command Line Tools Using Ubuntu Packages
- Here are the steps for installing the AWS command line tools that are currently available as Ubuntu packages. These include:…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (11)
- Ubuntu Developer Summit, May 2012 (Oakland)
- I will be attending the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) next week in Oakland, CA. This event brings people from around…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (0)
- Uploading Known ssh Host Key in EC2 user-data Script
- The ssh protocol uses two different keys to keep you secure: The user ssh key is the one we normally…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (2)
- Seeding Torrents with Amazon S3 and s3cmd on Ubuntu
- Amazon Web Services is such a huge, complex service with so many products and features that sometimes very simple but…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (3)
- CloudCamp
- There are a number of CloudCamp events coming up in cities around the world. These are free events, organized around…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (0)
- Use the Same Architecture (64-bit) on All EC2 Instance Types
- A few hours ago, Amazon AWS announced that all EC2 instance types can now run 64-bit AMIs. Though t1.micro, m1.small,…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (14)
- ec2-consistent-snapshot on GitHub and v0.43 Released
- The source for ec2-conssitent-snapshot has historically been available here: ec2-consistent-snapshot on Launchpad.net using Bazaar For your convenience, it is now…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (6)
- You Should Use EBS Boot Instances on Amazon EC2
- EBS boot vs. instance-store If you are just getting started with Amazon EC2, then use EBS boot instances and stop…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (23)
- Retrieve Public ssh Key From EC2
- A serverfault poster had a problem that I thought was a cool challenge. I had so much fun coming up…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (2)
- Running EC2 Instances on a Recurring Schedule with Auto Scaling
- Do you want to run short jobs on Amazon EC2 on a recurring schedule, but don’t want to pay for…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (11)
- AWS Virtual MFA and the Google Authenticator for Android
- Amazon just announced that the AWS MFA (multi-factor authentication) now supports virtual or software MFA devices in addition to the…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (2)
- Updated EBS boot AMIs for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy on Amazon EC2 (2011-10-06)
- Canonical has released updated instance-store AMIs for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy on Amazon EC2. Read Ben Howard’s announcement on the…
- By Eric Hammond | Comments (0)
Monthly Archives
- March 2013 (1)
- January 2013 (1)
- December 2012 (1)
- November 2012 (1)
- September 2012 (2)
- August 2012 (1)
- June 2012 (1)
- May 2012 (1)
- April 2012 (3)
- March 2012 (2)
- February 2012 (1)
- January 2012 (1)
- December 2011 (1)
- November 2011 (2)
- October 2011 (2)
- September 2011 (2)
- August 2011 (3)
- June 2011 (2)
- April 2011 (4)
- March 2011 (1)
- February 2011 (4)
- December 2010 (2)
- October 2010 (6)
- September 2010 (4)
- August 2010 (2)
- May 2010 (2)
- April 2010 (3)
- March 2010 (2)
- February 2010 (3)
- January 2010 (8)
- December 2009 (3)
- November 2009 (4)
- October 2009 (4)
- September 2009 (2)
- August 2009 (6)
- July 2009 (2)
- June 2009 (11)
- May 2009 (4)
- April 2009 (4)
- March 2009 (1)
- February 2009 (1)
- December 2008 (2)
- November 2008 (1)
- October 2008 (2)
- September 2008 (1)
- August 2008 (2)
- May 2008 (3)
- April 2008 (4)
- November 2007 (1)






Follow Eric Hammond on Twitter