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I don't think I said that you don't have to worry about implementation details at all, just that a cloud based solution like Amazon is often many orders of magn
by JoeCortopassi 14y ago
I don't think I said that you don't have to worry about implementation details at all, just that a cloud based solution like Amazon is often many orders of magnitude simpler than building/maintaining/repairing/replacing/updating physical machines at a co-location center.
- BryantD 14y agoWe could argue about how many orders of magnitude, but I agree. It's absolutely easier in some ways. I'm just saying that it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that EC2 (or whoever) is abstracted away from hardware failure/geographic problems when it definitely isn't. http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/09/google-devops-and-disaster-porn/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/09/google-devops-and-di... is a bit overdramatized but the final section is a great summary of real stuff you need to think about on EC2, or any other provider. Again, I know you're not minimizing these issues, but some people certainly do.