Amazon cloud?

[Andy D.]

Is anyone else here using the Amazon cloud for developing/testing/hosting on?

I'd appreciate anyone's opinions on whether they think the service is good or bad. As a side note I'll be running a staging environment on it with IBM WebSphere Portal being hosted.

Thanks

 

[Tsotne]

I have not used it personally but the general opinion from my friends who are using it is that, it is quite a smart solution to many problems.

good or bad

Actually its hard to say by one word if its good or bad. It depends on your requirements. See some articles guiding you through the definition of many services the Amazon Cloud offers. See if it suits your needs. This might be helpful
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

 

[Andy Nguyen]

The forum images/icons are hosted on Amazon cloud. They are a cheap way to host files and reduce access time for global users.
I'm moving Quantnet to another server and will drop Amazon. They have plenty of cloud services that are the perfect way to pay for only what you need, be it servers time or file hosting.

 

[Andy D.]

Thanks for the feedback. I've been playing around with the cloud on and off for a few months but not used it yet to actually host anything that will be viewed by clients off-site.
Since the project will only be up for a few weeks, this seems like a good solution as I can drop it once the review process is done.