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All you need for your backing store is a dumb key/value dictionary. You want S3 for that. Even with replication, running a DBMS on EC2 is a dreadfully foolish

by dfranke 19y ago

All you need for your backing store is a dumb key/value dictionary. You want S3 for that. Even with replication, running a DBMS on EC2 is a dreadfully foolish idea. A lot of startups are going to immediately go under the moment that EC2 has its first system-wide crash, and I'm going to be laughing at their misery.

wiemersl 19y ago
Here is the thing. What makes some other solution more immune to a system-wide crash than ec2? When that happens, what is the major difference between that solution and an ec2 based one? If you really want to play it safe and don't trust amazon, then what you want is a disaster recover site which is completely independent. However, wouldn't you also want the same for any isp/hosting solution?
- dfranke 19y ago
  It isn't a question of who you trust. It's a question of what classes of events that your system can withstand. EC2 is not durable. It isn't designed to be.