Amazon EC2/S3 Opinions

[LizardKing]

Anyone have experience/opinions on this?

Were looking at reducing our costs and one of the options is moving our hosting from rack space onto this or at least some of it, being very sceptical I'm pretty much against the idea and would rather look at more conventional hosts. But i've had a play with it today and i have to admit i'm rather impressed with the amount of functionality you get for very little money in comparison to RackSpace.

 

[LizardKing]

Cheers accod
That was the big downside (loosing the instance if its shut down), i think it may be big enough to put us off all together , it may only be a small chance of it every being shut down but there is still that chance.
I cant see a reason why they would do that other than forcing you into using the s3 service, which is stupidly cheap anyhow

I'll take a look at rightscale

I like the idea of being able to just create a server and have it functioning in 10minutes though, even if we dont use them for hosting i can see this being handy for demo/development sites etc.