Amazon EC2 May Be Experiencing Growing Pains

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 15, 2010 @02:27AM from the hey-you-get-offa-my-cloud dept.

1sockchuck writes "Some developers using Amazon EC2 are wondering aloud whether the popularity of the cloud computing service is beginning to affect its performance. Amazon this week denied speculation that it was experiencing capacity problems after a veteran developer reported performance issues and suggested that EC2 might be oversubscribed. Meanwhile, a cloud monitoring service published charts showing increased latency on EC2 in recent weeks. The reports follow an incident over the holidays in which a DDoS on a DNS provider slowed Amazon's retail and cloud operations."

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Re:Missed Opportunity by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-15 04:00 · Score: 4, Informative

I think the CouchDb devs would actually disagree: I've heard a few of them (janl and jchris) refer to what they do as "ground computing" rather than "cloud computing." I can't speak for them but I think their goal is a more user peer-to-peer architecture than a client-server arch (where in the server is a proprietary cloud).
The goals of the CouchDb project sometimes seem to extend further then just a RESTful database system...