During the great Amazon Web Services outages of April 2011 and June 2012 many users were stuck. They could, in theory, move their apps to another AWS region, or to another cloud provider altogether. But in practice the architecture of AWS regions are unique - each one supports slightly different features and APIs. The thing is, every cloud provider will eventually have some downtime. Quite possibly less downtime than your on-premise apps. But if you can't wait it out the downtime you're going to need to architect your applications so that they can live in different environments. And today AppFog and Rackspace announced a partnership that promises to make it easier to do that. But there's no word on when, so for now this is still vaporware.
Wednesday 1 August 2012
AppFog And Rackspace Want To Break Your App Out Of Amazon?s Walled Garden
During the great Amazon Web Services outages of April 2011 and June 2012 many users were stuck. They could, in theory, move their apps to another AWS region, or to another cloud provider altogether. But in practice the architecture of AWS regions are unique - each one supports slightly different features and APIs. The thing is, every cloud provider will eventually have some downtime. Quite possibly less downtime than your on-premise apps. But if you can't wait it out the downtime you're going to need to architect your applications so that they can live in different environments. And today AppFog and Rackspace announced a partnership that promises to make it easier to do that. But there's no word on when, so for now this is still vaporware.
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