Mar 7, 2011

Basic strategy for moving to the cloud

Flexibility is key. Spinning up instances, regardless of whether they are with AWS or not, needs to be easy, scalable, and allow for various operating systems, development environments/programming languages, and databases.

There are 2 basic strategies that are common to Startups, SMBs, and Enterprises: create new services/apps; migrate existing services/apps.

Justification for the business depends on TCO and must balance the cost of capital to acquire infrastructure vs. the expense of leasing temporary infrastructure.

Going to take a closer look at the AWS "economics" later.

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