Copacetic

Had first play around with Amazon EC2 today. Its great but it needs few things to really make it fly (these could be provided by Amazon or third parties).

1. Decent key management tools (preferably linked to smart card or USB storage devices)
2. Web based management interface
3. Swing based graphical tools to augment the command line tools
4. DNS management to allow allocation of sensible names to the nodes
5. Network monitoring for all live nodes (liveness, CPU load, disk space at least)
6. Scalability infrastructure that adds new nodes based on thresholds set by user and removes them in the same way
7. S3 filesystem integrated directly into Linux Kernel
8. Diff tool to compare two AMI images for differences
9. The ability to load and store AMI images somewhere other than S3
10. Support for Windows and OS-X images

He’s hard.

I’ll just quote you one,

“Chuck Norris once challenged Lance Armstrong in a “Who has more testicles?” contest. Chuck Norris won by 5.”

Ogden  Nash : “People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”

Ogden has obviously not had to call out a emergency plumber or glazer in Dublin recently….

It helps to know that Orlaith is Sean O’Sullivan’s sister. If he’s the big cheese (at Rococo) she’s the big chalk. Compare and contrast!