Consensus on using Amazon EC2 for high volume sites

Myles Braithwaite me-qIX3qoPyADtH8hdXm2+x1laTQe2KTcn/ at public.gmane.org
Thu Jun 9 13:30:36 UTC 2011


Amazon EC2 service is probably the best for high and low seasons. But
make sure you have your EC2 instances in multiple data centres.
Netflix[1] and SmugMug[2] were able to survive the last outage because
they had redundant systems.

Also don't be like this guy[3] who put critical patients ECG machines on EC2.

[1]: <http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html>
[2]: <http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/04/24/how-smugmug-survived-the-amazonpocalypse/>
[3]: <https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=65649&tstart=0>

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Dave Cramer <davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I have a client that is considering using EC2. The big draw is that
> they have a high season and a low season so they can configure as many
> servers as they want during high season and scale back  later.
>
> Are there other options ? Better options ?
>
>
> Dave Cramer
> VP Software Development
> Visible Assets Inc.
> www.visibleassets.com
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