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ericd on April 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The cost of cloud hosting vs. colocation

EBS is terrible, EC2 is dog slow and the relational MySQL thingie probably is unreliable.

Those sound like the main pillars... what's left?

alecco on April 25, 2011 [–]

Elastic Load Balancing, S3, SimpleDB, CloudFront, SQS, CloudWatch, and DevPay.

You can combine things, like automatically starting up EC2 instances from monitoring/balancer.

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