Tech

Akamai’s Edge Computing

A) According to the website akamai.com, “Akamai EdgeComputing enables enterprises to deliver J2EE Web applications that scale on demand and perform faster and more reliably worldwide, while reducing on their own IT infrastructures and simplifying support (Akamai.com).” Basically, Edge works by taking all of the data being used and pushed away from the centralized points of the network. It used to be very expensive thus only being marketed and made available to large corporations. Now, with the advancement of technology, Akamai Edge Computing can be offered to small and medium sized businesses. Some of the advantages of Edge computing are: decreases the amount of data that needs to be moved which improves quality, removes risks of high traffic, and security increases.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

B) According to the website aws.amazon.com, “The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It makes web-scale computing easier for developers (aws.amazon.com).” The website lists a number of applications that can be used by EC2. Each of these applications serves different types of needs for business and whoever else may use them. Pricing seems to be moderate. For the standard Instances which handle most cases, small to extra large range from $.12 per hour to $.96 per hour for windows users. For high memory instances the prices raise to $0.62 to $2.48 per hours. The pricing is figured out on a per instance hour consumerd.

References

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

www.akamai.com/html/technology/edgecomputing.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing