Comments on: S3 At A Real-world Company http://crapflingingmonkey.com/wp/2009/12/s3-at-a-real-world-company/ A voice for all developers Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:11:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha By: Ben http://crapflingingmonkey.com/wp/2009/12/s3-at-a-real-world-company/comment-page-1/#comment-3234 Ben Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:11:01 +0000 http://crapflingingmonkey.com/wp/?p=51#comment-3234 You aren't putting me out of work yet, sir. http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/10/your-cloud-needs-a-sys-admin.html You aren’t putting me out of work yet, sir.

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/10/your-cloud-needs-a-sys-admin.html

]]> By: josh http://crapflingingmonkey.com/wp/2009/12/s3-at-a-real-world-company/comment-page-1/#comment-3229 josh Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:01:08 +0000 http://crapflingingmonkey.com/wp/?p=51#comment-3229 Tim, that's a really good question, and this is where I think Amazon has their game really played out. What this decision came down to was: what can we use to get this out the door the fastest? The answer was S3, because there was already developer competency, so we knew exactly what needed to be done, and total transparency about what the cost was roughly going to be. It's very inviting to use AWS, so most developers have already messed around with the it, whereas people are less familiar with Akamai technologies. We actually added Akamai into the mix as an afterthought, mainly to lessen the impact if S3 were to go down (mostly to ease the tensions of Director and Executive level management), and because we were more comfortable with what the cost was going to be (nobody really put the time into digging into the details on estimating traffic). In regards to using Amazon CloudFront (CDN), we didn't use it because the comfort from the director/executive level lied with Akamai... it was basically the only way we could "sell it". My hope is to reduce costs by using something cheaper in the future. Akamai does beat other CDN hands down, and I'm not arguing that fact. That's the reason we use them for all other content on our site. We have tried others (LimeLight, are currently using EdgeCast on our ODAT sites like http://www.steepandcheap.com), but we always come back to Akamai just because of their reliability if not anything else. Tim, that’s a really good question, and this is where I think Amazon has their game really played out. What this decision came down to was: what can we use to get this out the door the fastest? The answer was S3, because there was already developer competency, so we knew exactly what needed to be done, and total transparency about what the cost was roughly going to be. It’s very inviting to use AWS, so most developers have already messed around with the it, whereas people are less familiar with Akamai technologies.

We actually added Akamai into the mix as an afterthought, mainly to lessen the impact if S3 were to go down (mostly to ease the tensions of Director and Executive level management), and because we were more comfortable with what the cost was going to be (nobody really put the time into digging into the details on estimating traffic).

In regards to using Amazon CloudFront (CDN), we didn’t use it because the comfort from the director/executive level lied with Akamai… it was basically the only way we could “sell it”. My hope is to reduce costs by using something cheaper in the future.

Akamai does beat other CDN hands down, and I’m not arguing that fact. That’s the reason we use them for all other content on our site. We have tried others (LimeLight, are currently using EdgeCast on our ODAT sites like http://www.steepandcheap.com), but we always come back to Akamai just because of their reliability if not anything else.

]]> By: Tim Hart http://crapflingingmonkey.com/wp/2009/12/s3-at-a-real-world-company/comment-page-1/#comment-3228 Tim Hart Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:44:37 +0000 http://crapflingingmonkey.com/wp/?p=51#comment-3228 I am a little confused by your posting-why not use Akamai for everything? Also does not Amazon has CDN and a cloud? Looking at the download times and loss of latentcy Akamai bets the rest hands down. I am a little confused by your posting-why not use Akamai for everything?
Also does not Amazon has CDN and a cloud?
Looking at the download times and loss of latentcy
Akamai bets the rest hands down.

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