About a year ago I attended the AWSome Day at Mechelen. Back then I wrote a first draft article about it, but it got out of my sight unfortunately. I reviewed it and decided to publish it anyway.

The event was based on their essentials course and took use through the different AWS core services (compute, storage, database and network).

I do know it has nothing to see with open-source. But it is a part of that ultimate cloud based setup I believe in which exists in one central place from where you can manage all your virtual machines independent …

Some of you may already have notices others just stumbled on this post through a search engine, I have set up an openstack private cloud at one of our projects:

• vlan flat-neutron provider network
• layer2

We have noticed that the benefits of having a private cloud is spreading through the different teams within the organization and therefore the interest into this flexibility is growing. Since this wasn't the original use case we are encountering some design issues right now.

For the original instances the default overcommit ratios are fine. But the request for new machines with other goals are like …