Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in History

Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by flyt on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @07:12PM (#8045141)

One of those rare examples where the best product is winning in an entire category.

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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by meddlepal on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @11:17PM (#8045891)

I don't know if they're the best at everything. I've been using Google Compute Engine extensively lately and I think it is a lot more polished feeling at times than EC2.

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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by tszming on Thursday July 17, 2014 @12:20AM (#8046036)

I am interested to know which part of the GCE is a lot more polished than EC2.

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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by crb on Thursday July 17, 2014 @08:07AM (#8047010)

One data point: On AWS, a hardware outage takes your machine down (with notification). GCE offers live migration, which you generally don't even know has happened. See http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/googl...

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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by tszming on Friday July 18, 2014 @01:52AM (#8051864)

Note: GCE live migration take place only when there is a "scheduled maintenance", it is not designed for immediate hardware failure, so it is not a silver bullet and should not rely on them for your service's availability.

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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by toomuchtodo on Thursday July 17, 2014 @12:59PM (#8048697)

You should be building your AWS infrastructure around failure scenarios, and while you should be notified of a failure, your app should continue to chug along.

/DevOps

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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by crazypyro on Thursday July 17, 2014 @01:11PM (#8048791)

Isn't he just saying that Google does this automatically for you?

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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by nulltype on Thursday July 17, 2014 @03:34AM (#8046436)

Well the TCP load balancer is pretty nice. Our EC2 load balancer (HTTP, through heroku) seemed to die all the time.

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