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Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-us-do-that dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "Amazon is pushing hard to be as ubiquitous in the world of cloud computing as it is in bookselling. The company's latest pitch is that even your highest-performing databases will run more efficiently on Amazon Web Services cloud servers than on your own hardware. Farming out your most important and potentially sensitive computing work to one of the most opaque tech companies out there: what could possibly go wrong?"

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  1. Re: AWS is too expensive by Wycliffe · · Score: 4, Informative

    We also had no problems with AWS pricing. Our problem was with their performance.
    They are not set up well for high io database applications.
    We switched to solid state drives on stormondemand(aka liquidweb) and have seen a 10 fold increase in performance.
    I prefer liquidweb's model as I can even opt to pick the exact specs of my machine but I still have all the same
    cloud features like spinning up a new instance or changing the size of an instance with a click of the button.
    To me stormondemand is the best of both worlds. Oh, and the best part is that I can actually talk to someone if
    there is a problem.