Lots of news in Amazon Web Services country. EC2 now has a service level agreement and is officially out of beta. More importantly, Amazon has announced that load balancing and automagic scaling is coming. These are both big deals, although directly competitive with products other companies have built on top of AWS. Interesting to watch how that will play out in the community.
Autoscaling and load balancing are both keys to the work I'm doing at EMI. In particular, as we consider different models for viewing and accessing data, capabilities -- an approach to access control central to Second Life over the last 2 years -- are looking like a likely solution to some of challenges we face. EC2 with load balancing and scaling lends itself nicely to supporting caps.
Thanks, Amazon!
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