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Really exciting. By far my biggest hope for EC2 is scriptable on demand dedicated hardware. I even flirted with the idea of launching a company the did just thi
by staunch 16y ago
Really exciting. By far my biggest hope for EC2 is scriptable on demand dedicated hardware. I even flirted with the idea of launching a company the did just this.
The pricing seems designed to make it a feature only usable by really big customers though, which seems like a big mistake that hopefully they can do something about. Maybe by adjusting their server configs or something.
Still keep getting impressed by the AWS team.
- thwarted 16y agoI believe Softlayer offers an API where you can script some aspects of ordering and managing machines. I haven't spent much time on it though, but I suspect it isn't scriptable in the sense that EC2 stuff is.
- hboon 16y agoYou can order and provision (with hardware config, OS installation/image) via their API. I just find that the time to provision is much slower than EC2 (10-20 minutes vs. 1-5 minutes).
- synack 16y agoWe built a system for doing exactly this type of provisioning of physical hardware at Digg: http://clusto.org/ http://clusto.org/