post past :: james murty

An interesting post with some drawbacks of cloud computing and EC2, from those in the trenches: Real-world cloud computing.

There are some real gems here, such as:

• [They all] used Amazon services, and most if not all of them seemed to use RightScale to manage them.
• Cost: cloud is more expensive than real machines. Cloud is good for elastic computing, not for high constant demand.
• You need monitoring services external to your cloud!