Looks like this AWS outage will different than others given Instagram's long down time

Instagram is one of the latest poster child's of Amazon Web Service.  Netflix being a believer in Chaos Monkey and has recovered.  Meanwhile Instagram is still down.

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 I can't see all the pictures I've posted? Same with all the other peoples...but thank you for fixing it!

 
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    Bit many and temperamental! Blooming thunderstorm! :0( xx

 
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 What happened to the pictures ? I can not see mine but it says how many i have

 
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    Watch TV and talk to humans?? xx

 
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AWS has gone down before, but a big service like Instagram has not been a result of down time.  AWS is mostly up, but not all.

Jun 30, 11:42 AM PDT We are continuing to work on processing our provisioning backlog for ELB load balancers. We are also continuing to work on restoring IO for the remaining small number of stuck EBS volumes. Customer action is required for EBS volumes that do not have IO currently enabled-- if you have not already chosen to Enable Volume IO, outlined in the instructions above, please follow those steps to re-enable IO on your EBS volumes.

It will be interesting what the post mortem looks like from AWS and Instagram on what the issues are.

Google's Compute Engine 600K VMs = 37,500 servers & 15MW of data center power

I am probably wrong on this calculation, but willing to take a stab at what could be.

Google announced its Compute Engine offering this morning.

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A Genome calculation with 10,000 cores was used as a demo.  If you use an 8 core Intel Xeon with dual processors this is 625 servers.

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Urs Hoelzle was presenting that there are 771,886 cores ready to run a Google Compute Engine job.

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Here is a the calculation executed with 600K cores with refreshes in seconds vs. 10 minutes for the 10,000 core system.

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So how many servers would 600K cores be?  If you assume 8 core processors (I was going to assume 10 core processors, but backed off to 8).  The following is pricing info.

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How many servers could this be?  600,000 Cores/16 cores/server = 37,500 servers.  (assume a virtual core does map to a physical core, note this is not always true)  Assume 350 Watts per server ( 2 processors, 64 GB more of RAM, 2 HD) is 13.125MW of IT power with a PUE of 1.12 you get to 15MW overall data center power consumption

600K cores may seem big.  But, thinking about 37,500 servers and 15MW of power is really impressive at least to the data center geeks.  Oh yeh, there 771,886 cores available which is 48,242 servers, 16.9 MW of IT and 18.9 MW of data center power.

It is impressive to think one whole 20MW of data center capacity is available on demand for a Google Compute Engine job.  Keep in mind this what is available, not the total capacity and being consumed.

Google changes the Product Demo to be like a reality show

Google Glasses was announced and demo'd yesterday.  

It will be interesting to see if Google's Reality style demo changes product launches in the future.

Below is Sergey giving a walk through of some of the behind the scenes. 

He has sun glass lens inserts in the Google Project Glasses.  There are multiple antennas on different frequencies pointing at the blimp.

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Sergey welcomes the jumpers landing on the roof.

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Shot of camera crew following the action.

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Apple's Reno Data Center Project = $103 mil bldg + $1 bil of equipment over 10 yrs

A few of us are having some laughs as the media says the Apple Reno data center is a billion dollar data center.

Here is one example from GigaOm.

Apple looking to build $1B Nevada data center by year’s end

By  Jun. 26, 2012, 12:58pm PT 2 Comments

Apple’s North Carolina data center

Apple’s taking a billion dollars and heading to Reno, but it’s going to avoid the slots: it plans to invest the money in a data center and a separate shipping and receiving office.

I've been waiting for the public disclosure to get the numbers closer to what would not get us laughing.  Las Vegas Sun has what makes sense.

Construction of the data center just east of Sparks is expected to generate a one-time $103 million economic impact, and Apple has said it will invest $1 billion in equipment for the storage center.

The Las Vegas Sun provides details on the tax incentives passed.

Here’s how it will work: The state can waive all but 2 percent of the sales tax rate for the server equipment Apple purchases for the data center. But by opening a second location in a special tourism improvement district in downtown Reno — an office meant simply to receive shipment of those servers — Apple is eligible to be reimbursed 75 percent of the 2 percent sales tax it still owes.

That piece of the deal is up for City Council approval today.

After all of its abatements and reimbursements, Apple would pay only 0.5 percent sales tax — instead of 7.5 percent — on the $1 billion in server equipment it’s expected to buy over the next 10 years.

Personal income from the local construction is estimated to be $15 million.

An economic impact analysis — named “Project Jonathan” after the medium-sized sweet apple to hide the company’s identity — estimates it will generate 329 direct and indirect jobs for the community with a total personal income of $15 million.

When you see all these facts, you can see why a $1B data center is a hype to get people to think it is a big deal.

This is a $100 million data center with 0.5% tax rate on $1B of IT equipment purchased over 10 years.  Would you be excited by the $5 mil in sales tax collected over 10 years from Apple's presence?  Apple got a great deal.

Google's Future Cloud Service: Project Glasses Demo Video

Google is adding more and more data center capacity.  What are they doing besides search, Youtube, and GMail.

Check out this video for a future Google Cloud Service: Project Glasses.

Here are more details if you would like to read instead of watch.

Google wants developers to take a leap with Project Glass

By  Jun. 27, 2012, 1:12pm PT No Comments

Sergey Brin’s extreme sports demonstration of Project Glass at Google I/O will likely go down in history as one of the most daring tech conference stunts of all time: The Google co-founder stormed on stage Wednesday, interrupting the regular keynote to show off Google’s wearable computing project by joining a live Hangout session with a bunch of skydivers, who proceeded to jump out of a plane.