On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> been extremely pleased with the quality of the service. > > So is this the wave of the future then? Is dedicated infrastructure going > to go away? Or only be around for high performance stuff like database > servers, etc.?
EC2 rocks, except for the part where there is no per-instance persistent storage. You have to build a scheme that backs everything up to S3 or some other external store in case your instance goes away. Apparently they are working on that, though. I see the value in having dedicated infrastructure for development and some core services, and then surrounding that with cloud or grid services for redundancy and geographic diversity. If you trust Amazon enough to store _everything_ there, then you don't need physical servers. I doubt that most organizations will trust them to that extent, as EC2 is a pretty juicy target for attackers at this point. -- Chris Snyder http://chxo.com/ _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
