Comments on: Why I Hesitate To Use Cloud Computing http://jaxn.org/article/2008/02/15/why-i-hesitate-to-use-cloud-computing/ the philosophy of technology Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:21:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2-9582 hourly 1 By: Jon Henshaw http://jaxn.org/article/2008/02/15/why-i-hesitate-to-use-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-34142 Jon Henshaw Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:35:34 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2008/02/15/why-i-hesitate-to-use-cloud-computing/#comment-34142 I hear you, I just still think that AWS is the best bang for the buck, and I really don't expect for it to experience outages like that again. I hear you, I just still think that AWS is the best bang for the buck, and I really don’t expect for it to experience outages like that again.

]]> By: Jackson Miller http://jaxn.org/article/2008/02/15/why-i-hesitate-to-use-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-34125 Jackson Miller Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:42:13 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2008/02/15/why-i-hesitate-to-use-cloud-computing/#comment-34125 I agree that all systems are vulnerable to outages. The Planet went down last year. However, with something like hosted servers the system can be moved to a new provider. Something like AWS (and S3 and SimpleDB in particular) there is no way to move those to a new provider without rewriting code. It would be different if there was an alternative provider (like if Google or Yahoo or eBay replicated the S3 and SimpleBD APIs). I agree that all systems are vulnerable to outages. The Planet went down last year. However, with something like hosted servers the system can be moved to a new provider. Something like AWS (and S3 and SimpleDB in particular) there is no way to move those to a new provider without rewriting code. It would be different if there was an alternative provider (like if Google or Yahoo or eBay replicated the S3 and SimpleBD APIs).

]]> By: Jon Henshaw http://jaxn.org/article/2008/02/15/why-i-hesitate-to-use-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-34120 Jon Henshaw Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:23:41 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2008/02/15/why-i-hesitate-to-use-cloud-computing/#comment-34120 Really though, all systems are vulnerable to the same outages. It's no different from running your own network or using somebody else's high availability system. The big thing here is that we wouldn't be able to do half of the stuff that we do if it wasn't for a system like S3. So all in all, it only shows how dependent we are on their service, not that their service or solution sucks. Really though, all systems are vulnerable to the same outages. It’s no different from running your own network or using somebody else’s high availability system.

The big thing here is that we wouldn’t be able to do half of the stuff that we do if it wasn’t for a system like S3. So all in all, it only shows how dependent we are on their service, not that their service or solution sucks.

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