[Swift-devel] swift-on-ec2

[Ioan Raicu]

Yes, that could certainly make their resource capacity planning easier, 
since as their resources consumption reaches critical levels, they just 
charge more and more, making it unrealistic that all resources will ever 
be consumed!

Ioan

Kate Keahey wrote:
> Ah, yes, the next thing they will allow people to bid... ;-).
>
> Tim Freeman wrote:
>
>>
>> That's not entirely true at this particular point in time:
>>
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130832-c,webservices/article.html
>>
>> "We hate being capacity-constrained," Bezos said. "It's not the right 
>> way to
>> run a business. We are trying to get ourselves in a position with EC2 
>> where we
>> will be demand-constrained instead of capacity-constrained."
>>
>>
>>> ... this could have implications on the resource allocation and 
>>> management policies that govern when it makes sense to get more 
>>> resources and when not to.
>>
>> Right now for example, we're programming a little feature into the 
>> workspace-EC2
>> gateway that limits the amount of money an entity can spend :-)
>> Tim 
>

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