On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > This sounds great for something we have in the pipe. > > So can you launch a commercial product on this? > And will the Amazon service scale?
Absolutely. Very scalable. Netflix uses it a for certain aspects of their business. Lots of companies do. Remember that you are running in a virtualized environment so IO is going to be your biggest bottleneck, but you can definitely plan around that and do things to reduce it's impact. On top of what Judah mentioned regarding cost, you can also run a hybrid sort fo environment where you might support the bulk of your servers yourself but use Amazon to supplement them during peak loads. A website that deals with a large annual event, as an example, may always need just a basic presence on the web but then when the even draws close they might need 10 or 100 times of more the capacity. Think something like Carnival or Mardi Gras, or a sporting event like the World Cup. You can get away with way less dedicated hardware during the regular year and then shift load of to Amazon during peaks. -Cameron .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345428 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
