Om Malik reminds us that Amazon’s Alexa service is having downtime issues (14 hours in November) as well as their S3 and EC2 system.  We are excited about the ability to use both S3 and EC2 as a solution for usage spikes, but Om’s warning is well taken.  Our current thinking is that S3 and EC2 are good solutions, but they should not be your ONLY solution.  We are building S3 and EC2 into our operation, but we will be pushing the data at the “right service at the right time” ~ just how we do that might turn out to be an interesting service.  Imagine a control panel that could help you do least cost routing of processing and storage based on any number of factors.

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