On: The Economics of AWS

[senthil_rajasek]

I agree that the ec2 is more expensive but... What are your alternatives?

[ds → senthil_rajasek]

Dedicated, Colo, Other VPS's if you must.

Shop around.

[senthil_rajasek → ds]

bringing up a new ec2 instance takes about .5 secs

[ds → senthil_rajasek]

Well, you cant beat that logic. Spend away sheeple.

[jon_dahl → ds]

You're coming on a little strong, man. I appreciate your basic point, but you're calling people sheep because they weigh the pros and cons of cloud hosting differently than you.