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So what is THE advantage of using dotcloud over my own AWS account where I can configure my servers using libraries like boto or Chef. Using AWS I can go for El

• simonw 16y ago
  You don't have to do all of that sysadmin work. If you're a super-skilled sysadmin who can set that stuff up (with properly configured backups and monitoring and replication and all that jazz) you might not need DotCloud. (Unless of course your time to do that is worth more than what their service would end up costing you.)
• jpetazzo 16y ago
  Elastic BeanStalk only does Java so far, or so I guess. Sure, they will expand - Amazon has an awesome R&D so I don't expect them to stay sitting there. And if you're daring, you can probably already run JRuby and Jython on BeanStalk, but YMMV. DotCloud already has Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis... The CLI is also quite easier to use than Boto. It doesn't need you to learn everything about instances, EBS, ELB, etc. for starters :-) Finally, I like Chef/Puppet, but mastering them takes some time. And most folks prefer pushing your code with git/hg (à la Heroku/Djangy/etc) rather than authoring AMIs, I was told :-)