Running Riak on Amazon Web Services

As a platform for high scalability and availability of data, Amazon EC2 is an ideal way to host Riak clusters. Using Riak on EC2, you can easily scale up and scale down, paying only for the computing power you need at any given time.

In response to increased loads on the data store, EC2 makes it possible to spin up new instances of Riak virtual servers in minutes. This makes Riak on EC2 one of the most economical ways to provide a redundant, fault-tolerant data store. Scaling down – removing server capacity in response to decreased load – is even simpler on EC2.

Utilizing EC2 to deploy your Riak cluster enables you to utilize Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure and tools, including their web service API to instantiate and manage EC2 servers as well as their Web-based management console.

Amazon’s flexible storage offerings are an ideal way to handle large datasets to be handled and queried by Riak’s MapReduce model. Once your data set is located in a Riak instance running in the EC2 cloud, you can process a nearly limitless amount of data.