What are your thoughts on AWS-based architecture?
I read this article:
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/12/running-everything-on-aws-soocialcom.html
And I was wondering if this was good or bad. I'm an AWS fan myself, but I need to hear what the crowd thinks ...
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Everything is perfect in the Elastic world, except for reliability. Obviously, the reliability and quality of service depends on the service provider, and if the service provider is working there is nothing to distract you. I'm a big supporter of AWS, but with the last two outages, I am now designing redundancy on local datacenter servers in the event of outages.
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One of the main design considerations when developing a solution in AWS is waiting for service outages and implementing a mechanism to recover, and if you need HA then implement redundancy. Do not assume that all services are reliable (unless otherwise stated that they implement redundancy internally). Most of these problems can be solved if you are using managed services like Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Dynamodb, etc., but if you are using services like EC2 then you need to create for HA, for example for EC2 with using automatic scaling and loading balancing.
If you are interested in learning more, please refer to AWS Well-Architecture .
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