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But in an ideal world you wouldn't tie your application to a specific cloud provider. You can do that easily if you just treat clouds merely as hosted hypervis
by gaius 9y ago
But in an ideal world you wouldn't tie your application to a specific cloud provider.
You can do that easily if you just treat clouds merely as hosted hypervisors and think entirely in terms of VMDKs. But this doesn't make commercial sense to do at least in the short term - you need to utilise the layered services you are paying for anyway or you might as well just run your own DC.
- icebraining 9y agoIt still makes sense for its elastic properties (from which EC2 got its name). You can't rent half a DC for an hour, but you can spawn generic instances from VMDKs on different providers with a fairly small abstraction layer.
- gaius 9y agoYour data still needs to live somewhere and giant VMDKs being copied around aren't a reasonable solution, I'd argue.