Hi, On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Nicholas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > I actually think its not cheap, its a trade-off between convenience and cost > and Amazon are very smart about choosing their product / service placements > > in other words, there is still lots of hosting outside of Amazon i.e. > Rackspace, Linode ... all the way down to micro hoster resellers > > Ubuntu for instance is doing a lot to make private and hybrid cloud > infrastructure super easy to use and once you've got the machines (including > commodity boxes) and a windmill you're TCO approaches zero
Do you think the variety of providers is enough to ensure we don't get locked in? Do you see it as a large risk if Amazon becomes the de-facto supplier of scientific computing cycles and data hosting? Best, Matthew _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
