Catonic wrote:

Decius wrote:
We're looking at moving MemeStreams into this. The biggest challenge is that if your instance shuts down for some reason you loose all of your data.

So you keep your datastore/database on a seperate instance that Never Goes Down / failover pair / replicating db ... They don't charge so much for disc as they do cpus use, right?

They flat rate for the whole system, but its a virtual machine with a RAM disk. If their hardware fails they loose your data. If you screw up and terminate it, you loose your data. You can replicate, but the economics of that depend greatly on what you are doing. The idea of having no hard media anywhere in the backup strategy is a bit unsettling to me, frankly. I think they need to provide a SAN service that goes with this. (S3 is not at all like a SAN service...)

RE: Amazon - EC2