Re: Amazon EC2 | Any recent developments - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Kerr
Subject Re: Amazon EC2 | Any recent developments
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Msg-id 20090615185230.GA85893@mr-paradox.net
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In response to Amazon EC2 | Any recent developments  (AJAY A <aagrawalla@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:12:32AM -0700, AJAY A wrote:
- Hello All,
-
- I am investigating the possibility of hosting pgsql 8.3 on Amazon EC2
- & implementing a simple HA solution.  My search of postgresql & amazon
- cloud has produced little result.  Just wondering if there has been
- any recent development with EBS etc. and anybody would care to share
- their experiences.

We've been researching Cloud/EC2 as well. The consensus so far from RightScale,
and IBM (the first 2 we've spoken with) is that if I/O performance is important to
you, then stay away from the cloud.  (it's just VMs afterall)

Dave

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