I just got an email from Amazon about a new service. Check it out…
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_2170_10160930?node=689343011
This new EBS system for E2C just made the whole compute-cloud offering from Amazon an easy port from a regular web app to an Amazon hosted app. Before, all your persistent data storage had to go to S3 which had a specific API you had to develop for. Now, it can go to EBS which acts like a block device. In other words, a virtual disk. So just about any application should “just work” instead of needing modifications.
I had stayed away from EC2 because I didn’t want to tie my apps to Amazon services. But perhaps this fixes that problem. I’ll have to play with it sometime soon.
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