AWS and large data sets
We’ve held back on going fully AWS as trying to get terabytes of data over to them would have been a colossal waste of time/money over a network connection. Today, Amazon web services announced they can receive USB 2/esata devices up to 8U high if you want to load up large data sets into their S3 service:
We haven’t analyzed the pricing but it is one more nail into the “let’s shut the dev cage down and go all cloud” debate.
Tags: aws, cloud computing
