I never thought about that Chris. Good point. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Chris Snyder <chsny...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Federico Ulfo <rainelemen...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Matt thanks for point that out, with your correction now I feel even more >> happy to have choose Rackspace for my project. >> I found funny that both AWS and RS didn't fix many of the issues you listed >> in your article one year ago! > > A little late on this thread, but another problem with EC2 is that > Amazon, because of its massive consumer retail operation and global > profile, is a much bigger and juicier target for attackers than > Rackspace or Linode. > > I have never liked the idea that I order books and shoes with the same > user account that has control of my servers. Of course you can and > should create a separate account just for AWS admin, but you can't > limit an account to *only* AWS access, so the attack surface is much > larger than it should be. > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
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