Comments on: Amazon storing more than 449B objects in S3

By: Haidn Foster, Tier 3

Haidn Foster, Tier 3 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:53:06 +0000

There is no question that AWS’s numbers are a great indicator of the cloud’s capability of handling vast quantities of dev/test work, as well as the adoption of cloud computing as a whole.

Now enterprise is taking notice: can the cloud be used for production apps and services, as well as lab/dev? Is a true business-grade cloud ready with the reliability, performance, and security needed to run mission-critical applications?

We’ve put together 2 checklists you may find useful: one for ensuring your cloud provider is enterprise-ready, and one for migrating your apps and data once you’ve found the right partner.

Check them out here: http://bit.ly/CloudChecklists

Haidn Foster, Tier 3

By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:15:44 +0000

Hi Mark,

Get all the informations before making up your mind about outage. Do you know that there is not one cloud provider that meets their SLAs ? The best one is Amazon with 93.2% this is 24 days of downtime per year. I don’t think it is very good for that kind of service. I spoke with some of their customer at Interop this year and they weren’t too happy about the outage. Worst than that is the security of your data at these providers. Do you know that much of them use the same key for encryption of all the disks of all the servers ? So with your key you can uncrypt the data of your neighbours. Oh and by the way yes you can see your neighbours because many attacks have been done thru ring 0 of the virtualization layer of the server today and are well documented on the web….

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:06:21 +0000

Get all the information before making your mind. Reddit and others had huge impacts with that outage. I met with them and others at Interop and they were not happy. It is sure that internal IT outage will get any news coverage has it is your business. But when you pay for a service it is another ball game. Do you know that there is not one cloud provider that mets their SLAs ! the best is Amazon with 93.2 % this is 24 days of outage per year. I don’t think it is very good for an external service….

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:02:36 +0000

I laugh pretty hard at those who complain about amazons outage. Corporate it has outages all the time, including planned down time. U just don’t see press coverGe about it. Knowing what I do about the competency and technology, one would seem much better served by amazons cloud than even some of the very best corporate IT departments and data centers.

By: AffirmedSystems

AffirmedSystems — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:14:48 +0000

we saw the tipping point a few months ago with a 3 day outage… Many customers wont wait until they “see” the next one – they will have left the service.

By: Dan Callahan

Dan Callahan — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:50:34 +0000

Agreed that this is phenomenal, and is a good indicator of the approaching “tipping point” for cloud-based services. What I find intriguing is the question of how you would manage 449B objects… that has to be the mother of all database challenges.

Dan