Consensus on using Amazon EC2 for high volume sites

[Timothy Hildred]

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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Myles Braithwaite
<me-qIX3qoPyADtH8hdXm2+x1laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>wrote:

> 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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