The increasing trend of cloud computing, makes it necessary to keep regular updates on cloud computing strategy, this can help us to make mistakes that are costly and also miss the opportunity. According to some of the major researchers in the industry, cloud computing services can play a major role in technology, but we need to have frequent reviews to avoid any type of uncertainty.

Cloud computing is the latest technology trend that has sync-in into the market for quite some time, it enables businesses to deliver better IT services with the freedom of choosing the Hardware and Software supports. There is a rapid change and evolution in the technology, has lead to confusion and misunderstandings about “Cloud” being used as the marketing term.

Top Market researchers have identified some cloud computing sub-trends that can in the next couple of years, become very important for users. They are:

Hybrid Cloud Computing.
Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) to Increase Cloud Consumption.
Global Application by using Cloud Centric Design.

CLOUD COMPUTING: AMAZON RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

We do not need to install and configure MySQL over the server/hardware which is a time consuming process, so Amazon provides RDS Service which is pre-installed and optimized MySQL Database Service. RDS Service provide a Administrator level user to you so that user can do Database administrative work like assigning/revoking privileges, changing global variables, changing database engine etc..

One of our prospective customers read our post on Cloud Computing and came back to us with some questions on Virtual Dedicated Hosting (yes a new term for Cloud Computing, relating only to server hosting). With their permission I am reproducing some of the questions as below with the hope that the very same questions will help alleviate the indecision from our other prospective customers:

Circa- April 2007 AD, a major revolution was starting to happen on the Planet Earth. Amazon.com, which until now had been one of our favourite e-commerce platforms decided it was going to utilize it's spare server capacity and lease it out to the world in a pay-as-you-use basis. What they called Amazon Web Services (or AWS) at that time, is today being heralded as a wave of Cloud Computing, which almost all server infrastructure providers are implementing.

As a company and as a business, how best can you take advantage of this marvellous framwork which embraces the concepts of Software as a Service (Saas) and Service Oriented Architecture (SoA) to the maximum. At Tekriti we have been experimenting, evangelizing and executing innovation using Cloud Computing and the AWS Stack since April 2007 itself.