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[APV]

Does anybody have experience with amazon cloud services?

[speedrrracer]

I've been using EC2 for a few years. Not the cheapest, but nice feature set, Amazon enjoys a good reputation, and I wanted to support Amazon because Amazon helps support CGF.

Is it a viable choice for you? You'll have to weigh all the variables for your particular situation.

[APV]

I've been using EC2 for a few years. Not the cheapest, but nice feature set, Amazon enjoys a good reputation, and I wanted to support Amazon because Amazon helps support CGF.

Is it a viable choice for you? You'll have to weigh all the variables for your particular situation.

thanks. that's exactly what I am doing right now. I found a forum with a similar discussion that clarified part of my questions. I think I'll give it a try.

[APV]

I've been using EC2 for a few years. Not the cheapest, but nice feature set, Amazon enjoys a good reputation, and I wanted to support Amazon because Amazon helps support CGF.

Is it a viable choice for you? You'll have to weigh all the variables for your particular situation.

Your positive experience encouraged me to start AWS trial. Can you elaborate how you preserve data in AWS? As I understood I will be charged unless AWS instance gets stopped, but then I get notification that the attached volume will be lost as well. Is it a choice of running the instance non stop with all charges involved or to load the application and data from a separate storage each time I start a new instance? I am looking through aws documents and will appretiate any advice on the matter.

[speedrrracer]

We preserve data primarily in databases. They are virtual instances, but unless the instances are wiped, they are persistent, just like any file on any computer. We keep redundant backups as you would with any mission-critical information, and we also maintain instances in disparate geographical regions for failover.

Losing an instance, or needing to modify an instance is something for which you should prepare. We use Chef to configure our instances.

As for cost, I can't say what's the best approach for you. Spinning up instances is fairly quick -- a matter of minutes will get you dozens -- but loading offsite data can take time for data sets of significant size. The approach you choose will depend on your specific use case.

[APV]

We preserve data primarily in databases. They are virtual instances, but unless the instances are wiped, they are persistent, just like any file on any computer. We keep redundant backups as you would with any mission-critical information, and we also maintain instances in disparate geographical regions for failover.

Losing an instance, or needing to modify an instance is something for which you should prepare. We use Chef to configure our instances.

As for cost, I can't say what's the best approach for you. Spinning up instances is fairly quick -- a matter of minutes will get you dozens -- but loading offsite data can take time for data sets of significant size. The approach you choose will depend on your specific use case.

thanks for the info. One more question, how do you transfer data to/from cloud? VPN is probably the most secure but I bumped into a problem that not all routers support VPN.