Jeff Nolan recently wrote about Amazon’s Web Services Getting Attention, and I tend to agree that if you have not yet considered the use of S3 or EC2 for Web-based applications an storage, then now is a good time to do so. We have plans to do just that as part of a major hosting and virtualisation review of our systems
We had an interesting lunch on Monday with Mike Culver from Amazon when he was in town, and he really whetted our appetite for potential new developments in the both services. One of our larger clients recently completed a security audit on Amazon Web Services, which means they are now free to try out some cloud computing initiatives. Given the extraordinarily time-consuming, costly and frustrating process they currently have to endure to provision even the most basic services internally, this is truly a good thing
What prompted me to post this note, by the way, was that my wife, an anthropologist, was recommended a particular brand of notebook with carbon paper for her forthcoming field work by her supervisor (who is not much older than me!). Apparently, this notebook is not so prone to ink fading and she was encouraged to mail back the carbon copies every week in case she lost the originals. Somehow, I think automatic background backups of digital content to the cloud is a better option Sheesh!