I think you need to limit which "cloud" you are talking about: IaaS: Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud. PaaS: Google App Engine, Heroku SaaS: MailChimp, Google Apps
Deciding to use a service is a decision that your organization doesn't have the resources or expertise to manage a particular issue. Of course, this is also a decision to trust the service provider that they know how to manage said service. That doesn't mean there won't be outages, it means the provider will handle the outages responsibly. I don't know what Reddit's issues are, but there are plenty of services built on EC2 that work just fine. If EC2 is so unreliable, why are they still using it? I'd recommend you take a look at Heroku's [1] and AWS's Post Mortems [2]. 1: http://status.heroku.com/incident/151 2: http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been asked to put together a presentation on the pros and cons of cloud > computing and a recommendation for what, if anything, can be moved to the > cloud which will result in a net savings that will be worth any additional > problems/headaches. > > Aside from personal computing I don't have any experience with working on the > cloud so I was hoping some of you could share your experiences with me and > offer any insight into the subject. > > My primary questions are: > > Aside from email, what other types of services are most suitable for moving > to the cloud? > How can latency as a result of things being stored offsite be circumvented? > What cloud service providers are worth looking into and where can I find a > general idea of what pricing would be like? > I realize Amazon is one of the big ones but based on their recent disaster > and the constant downtime of reddit (which I've read is due to Amazon), they > seem like a poor choice > What security concerns are there for moving data to the cloud? > > Any additional information would greatly be appreciated as well. > > > Thanks! > > -Evan > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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