http://deasil.disqus.com/enMon, 12 May 2008 07:40:59 -0000http://comments.deasil.com/2008/05/09/google-appengine-amazon-aws/#comment-449484<p>That's a pretty interesting idea, I hope someone's working on it already. Another thing that would be most awesome is coming at the same idea from a different angle - if Amazon could just let EC2 instances grow arbitrarily gigantic, so you get one instance and it simply can use more and more compute cycles as necessary - or if it's a logistical effort, instead of adding more instances you add more "cpus" to a given instance. I suspect that would be workable for many but the top 1% of super cpu suckers like twitter - you'd end up with a massive instance but not mind bogglingly so.</p>felixMon, 12 May 2008 07:40:59 -0000http://comments.deasil.com/2008/05/09/google-appengine-amazon-aws/#comment-447193<p>RE: your virtual RackSpace idea, something like this may be a tool in the NOC:</p><p><a href="http://www.rightscale.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.rightscale.com/">http://www.rightscale.com/</a></p><p>I'm waiting for someone to move up to the next level of abstraction and effectively merge the appengine and AWS approaches. Something like a web framework based on [insert-favorite-framework-here] but with explicit supports for SimpleDB, SQS, S3, etc. as well as callbacks for notifying the master container about load conditions so that autonomous or rule-based VM instantiation (and reaping) can occur in response to traffic patterns.</p><p>A concept like that could be merged with a virtual hosting idea to give kinda the best of both worlds - flexibility and hands-offness...</p>mpodrazikSun, 11 May 2008 19:52:09 -0000