Re: Why isn't the DF Community Interested in the Cloud?
I think most already know I have been one the earliest and biggest proponent of Cloud particularly AWS. And lobbied successfully for the Cloud forum section. And during my time with DAW i put together the AWS AMI.
IMHO the lack of forum postings and also interest from the developer community is that once the shiny "new" label wore off "THE CLOUD" everyone realized it was just remote computing and not that hard. Now granted Amazon has been really piling on some important and interesting services in their environment.
For me personally I am too busy right now to spend the time needed to do cost breakdowns and justifications in a forum posting.
Just know I have done some rather large systems for client on AWS and they were very successful and made the customers happy.
But be prepared and understand it's far from free and big systems tend to be on the expensive side. And also know expensive is hard to measure over time. Just ask Delta airlines how expensive a missing UPS backup costs. Or even British Airways from last week's outage.
Chuck Atkinson
"No matter how confounding the case, Bob Worsley always finds the quaesitum."