[Thousand-Oaks-pm] Amazon EC2 presentation: A followup question.

[shawn faison]

Hi Dave,
I don't have any experience wtih dot cloud but I've had great experience
with using EC2 and mounting EBS ( Elastic Block Store ) images for my data
storage. I use Amazon's S3 for static images and Elasticache for my caching
layer, this whole setup works really well for me right now and at my
current data and network usage it is very cost effective.

I don't have any experience with the new CloudFront service or Amazon's
custom nosql database solution. I use Redis on an amazon instance and it
works great. I have never experienced losing data when rebooting a server
but I do know that amazon backs up data on EBS Images and it's easy to
clone them and keep backups, but if you have a lot of data it gets
expensive.

I hope this helped .

Shawn

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:37 PM, David Oswald <daoswald at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was just wondering if anyone in our group who has deployed on EC2
> has used it to support a database as well.  It's my understanding that
> the EC2 instance loses its data when shut down, so it doesn't make
> sense to host a database within it, but Amazon provides the RDS cloud,
> which should be a nice stable cloud-based relational database,
> available to an EC2 application.
>
> Another option I'm considering for this project is dot cloud.  It sort
> of bundles a web application instance along with a mysql database.
>
> I guess my question is, what experiences have others had in pairing
> EC2 with RDS for a low-volume but highly available web application?
> And can anyone compare that to experiences with dot cloud's
> "Perl/MySQL" web application environment?
>
> I've got a client whom I would like to migrate away from self-hosting
> an internal-use web application, by moving them over to the cloud,
> possibly retaining one of the existing servers just in case of thunder
> storms. ;).
>
>
> Dave
>
> --
>
> David Oswald
> daoswald at gmail.com
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