Comments on: The Cloud as a Load Balancer http://www.kroesbergens.com/portfolio/2009/12/the-cloud-as-a-load-balancer/ my opinions, conjectures, and thoughts Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wes Kroesbergen http://www.kroesbergens.com/portfolio/2009/12/the-cloud-as-a-load-balancer/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Wes Kroesbergen Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:18:19 +0000 http://kroesbergens.com/portfolio/2009/12/the-cloud-as-a-load-balancer/#comment-28 Agreed John. I personally generally prefer Amazon EC2 over Microsoft Azure, but they fundamentally are different. EC2 is designed as a standalone computing platform, where Azure is really designed as a complimentary service to an internal infrastructure. I think it setting up Azure as an extender to an internal infrastructure would be much more feasible than setting up new Windows Server boxes on the Amazon EC2 computing platform and dealing with general Microsoft Licensing issues. The licenses for setting up a launch day portal also are not as flexible to maintain. Agreed John. I personally generally prefer Amazon EC2 over Microsoft Azure, but they fundamentally are different. EC2 is designed as a standalone computing platform, where Azure is really designed as a complimentary service to an internal infrastructure. I think it setting up Azure as an extender to an internal infrastructure would be much more feasible than setting up new Windows Server boxes on the Amazon EC2 computing platform and dealing with general Microsoft Licensing issues. The licenses for setting up a launch day portal also are not as flexible to maintain.

]]> By: John Tobin http://www.kroesbergens.com/portfolio/2009/12/the-cloud-as-a-load-balancer/comment-page-1/#comment-27 John Tobin Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:31:03 +0000 http://kroesbergens.com/portfolio/2009/12/the-cloud-as-a-load-balancer/#comment-27 Wes, great thoughts. Companies should definitely be considering cloud solutions in their platforms, - especially for auto scaling on demand, I agree. Cloud solutions have been around for quite a while now, and a company like WIND would have been smart to take advantage of them for their launch. They can't afford to be perceived as behind the times, unreliable, or unable to meet demand by prospective customers looking to make a change. Amazon's EC2 cloud is perfect for this kind of demand and has been around far longer than Azure too. Plus, you're able to run a stable, scalable, server ready OS on the Amazon machines also, which is great. This would have definitely solved WIND's problems this morning - oh well, perhaps next time Globalive launches in another country they'll think ahead! Wes, great thoughts. Companies should definitely be considering cloud solutions in their platforms, – especially for auto scaling on demand, I agree. Cloud solutions have been around for quite a while now, and a company like WIND would have been smart to take advantage of them for their launch. They can’t afford to be perceived as behind the times, unreliable, or unable to meet demand by prospective customers looking to make a change.

Amazon’s EC2 cloud is perfect for this kind of demand and has been around far longer than Azure too. Plus, you’re able to run a stable, scalable, server ready OS on the Amazon machines also, which is great. This would have definitely solved WIND’s problems this morning – oh well, perhaps next time Globalive launches in another country they’ll think ahead!

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