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Re:Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scal... by electic on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @11:54PM (#8072839)
Curious, what do they use to create these machines? Is there some sort of open source package that allows you to create elastic machines?
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Re:Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scal... by wmf on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @11:56PM (#8072846)
LXC or Docker. You can resize a container by changing the parameters on the cgroups.
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Re:Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scal... by spartango on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @12:26AM (#8072913)
Xen/VMWare also support hot resizing of CPU and RAM.

What's interesting is that neither LXC nor Docker support memory snapshots (machine state), which Terminal.com has demonstrated. Xen, KVM, and VMWare do, but I can't really imagine people running these atop AWS infrastructure (Xen underneath).

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Re:Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scal... by gomesnayagam on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @03:13AM (#8073228)
I guess aws provide api to manage the resource, the heroku is another example which run on top of aws.
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