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Any citations? There are lots of people using EC2 at appropriate instances sizes to do compute intensive loads. Provisioned IOPS and, again, appropriate instanc

by mentat 12y ago

Any citations? There are lots of people using EC2 at appropriate instances sizes to do compute intensive loads. Provisioned IOPS and, again, appropriate instance types are necessary to get high performance disk I/O.

bkeroack 12y ago
My "citation" is my own experience managing infrastructure for several AWS-backed startups. I think public cloud services have a role and make sense in certain cases (particularly for very early stage companies), but I'm realistic about their performance characteristics and tradeoffs. The biggest danger is in overuse of proprietary AWS services, which makes it much more difficult to migrate off when the business outgrows the public cloud.