Clouds Part, Truth Peeks Out
June 8, 2009
Ned Batchelder’s “Real World Cloud Computing is worth reading. You can find the article here. The information is a summary of key and interesting observations made by six start ups’ top guns about cloud computing. I don’t want to spoil your enjoyment of the original post. I would like to quote one passage to motivate you to read the article:
Here are five points about Amazon’s cloud services:
- “Can’t send lots of emails, since you need a spam-white listed server
- Disk I/O in the cloud is a lot slower than in real machines (“punishingly slow”).
- Want a db server with 32Gb RAM? Amazon doesn’t offer it.
- Want dual hardware load balancers? Amazon doesn’t have it.
- PCI (credit card) compliance is a problem: use a 3rd-party cart or PayPal instead of doing it yourself in the cloud.”
Very useful.
Stephen Arnold, June 8, 2009
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