Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an `on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resource...
Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significa...
Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, ...
—Flash-crowd attacks are the most vicious form of distributed denial of service (DDoS). They flood the victim with service requests generated from numerous bots. Attack requests...
—Data grids, such as the ones used by the high energy physics community, are used to share vast amounts of data across geographic locations. However, interactions with grid data ...
Karolina Sarnowska, Andrew S. Grimshaw, Erwin Laur...
—With virtual machine technology, distributed services deployed in multiple cooperative virtual machines, such as multi-tier web services, may reside on one physical machine. Thi...