A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offered by AWS as public commercial service has been one of the first and probably the seminal service for the research on cloud applications and infrastructure. From an application perspective, hosting in EC2 means wrapping the application into one of the provided virtual machine (VM) images and instantiating it in […]
Cloud services are meant to be elastically scalable and robust against all kinds of failures. The core services are very mature nowadays, but the tools which glue them together are often in need of quality improvements. Two common risks in networked environments are (1) unavailability and (2) slowness of services. The first risk is easier […]
Great news from the other side of the pond! The ICCLab Cloud-Native Applications (CNA) initiative has been awarded an AWS Research Education grant for accessing cloud resources on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Congrats to Sandro and Giovanni (yours truly) for the achievement and a big thanks to Amazon for this. The AWS Research […]