http://allfacebook.disqus.com/enMon, 28 Jan 2008 02:45:08 -0000http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-1639246Nobody 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.MarcMon, 28 Jan 2008 02:45:08 -0000http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-1639245We 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.Ben SharpeFri, 25 Jan 2008 12:03:12 -0000http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-1639244There's Rackspace too, but clearly Joyent is Facebook-centric.David R. StrachanFri, 25 Jan 2008 11:01:52 -0000