Oh, *that* EC2
I did wonder what was going on around Liverpool Street that required hardened OpenSolaris...
In the wake of the launch of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release earlier this month, the open source Solaris project has packaged up a bunch of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) virtual machines based on OpenSolaris so they can be deployed on the ECS compute cloud. A few days after the release, the project put out a 32-bit AMI image for …
I did wonder what was going on around Liverpool Street that required hardened OpenSolaris...
Amazon is not the only cloud for OpenSolaris - Joyent has been hosting applications requiring serious availability requirements under OpenSolaris for awhile! http://joyent.com/
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