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Anyone using Amazon EC2?

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AceXsmurF

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I am just wondering about some peoples experience with EC2 and what you are doing for:

Data Protection
High availability of servers
Monitoring of performance
and all the other fun stuff that Virtualization/Cloud Computing brings to the table.

One particular thing that I would like to discuss is emails like this that I got today:

We have noticed that one or more of your instances are running on a host degraded due to hardware failure.

x-xxxxxxx

The host needs to undergo maintenance and will be taken down at 12:00 GMT on 2009-11-18. Your instances will be terminated at this point.

The risk of your instances failing is increased at this point. We cannot determine the health of any applications running on the instances. We recommend that you launch replacement instances and start migrating to them.

Feel free to terminate the instances with the ec2-terminate-instance API when you are done with them.

Sincerely,

The Amazon EC2 Team
 
Seen those emails before, haha.

We used to run some databases on Amazon AWS/EC2. They had a hardware failure and put our massive database on a server with 2GB of ram. Needless to say, that was fun to fix.

We also found out that we are sharing CPU cycles with someone else when our instances are not at a high capacity!
 
Tobe said:
We also found out that we are sharing CPU cycles with someone else when our instances are not at a high capacity!
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Uhhh... I'm not pretending to be all knowledgeable about EC2, but isn't that the point of cloud computing? EC2 uses the pay for what you use model.
 
summary of the message: the stuff that you paid us to run...isn't going to run anymore. please migrate your stuff to a new instance. sorry, you're going to be staying late... for a while. i hope this isn't an inconvenience... actually, we don't care. you should have bought your own infrastructure.

i've looked at their model, the lack of control over the environment makes it a non-compelling solution, unless you can't afford the equipment or the datacenter footprint.
 
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