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Facebook Announces Amazon Partnership

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Today, Facebook announced a partnership with Amazon to provide instant scalable solutions to Facebook application developers. The new partnership appears to be nothing more than a marketing agreement. In addition to receiving scalable solutions, developers also have access to tutorials and prelo ... Continue reading »

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  • David R. Strachan

    1 year ago

    There's Rackspace too, but clearly Joyent is Facebook-centric.
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  • Ben Sharpe

    1 year ago

    We tried EC2 back in Nov. and Joyent's free facebook account servers were significantly faster. Joyent's direct peering with FB's network makes a huge difference. If this partnership with Amazon leads to the same peering arrangement -- it could be a nice alternative.
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  • Marc

    1 year ago

    Nobody is mentioning the fact that with EC2 there is no immutable storage for your database. You literally have to hack together a backup/sync/recovery routine into and out of S3 or somewhere else. If your EC2 instance goes down, highly likely if you get enough traffic, or, if Amazon's cloud goes den then your DB is SOL.
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