Daily Archives: September 3rd, 2006

There is a real issue to be discussed…

Amazons EC2 service is, by all accounts, brillian. But one of the things that it lacks is any sort of assurance regarding data permanence. What I mean is each machine that you turn on has 160GB of storage, but if that server instance is ever shut off the data is *lost* (not corrubted byt GONE) [...]