What do you think of an AWS based architecture

Question

I was reading through this article:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/12/running-everything-on-aws-soocialcom.html

And I was wondering if this was good or bad. I am a fan of AWS myself, but I what to hear what the crowd thinks...

Answer 1

There is everything perfect in the Elastic World besides reliability. Obviously, the reliability and quality of service is dependent on the service provider and if the service provider is down you don't have anything to fallback on. I am a big proponent of AWS, but with the last two outages, I am now designing fallback on local data center servers in case of outages.