A lot of technical forums and discussions have highlighted the limitations of EC2 and how it loses on performance when compared to physical servers of equal cost. They argue that you can get much more hardware and bigger iron for the same money. So it then seems foolhardy to turn to the cloud. Why this mad rush to the cloud then? Of course if all you’re looking at is performance, it might seem odd indeed. But another way of looking at it is, if performance is not as good, it’s clearly not the driving factor to cloud adoption.
CIOs and CTOs are often asking questions more along the lines of, “Can we deploy in the cloud and settle with the performance limitations, and if so how do we get there?”
Another question, “Is it a good idea to deploy your database in the cloud?” It depends! Let’s take a look at some of the strengths and weaknesses, then you decide.
8 big strengths of the cloud
Some challenges with deploying in the cloud
Many of these challenges can be mitigated against. The promise of the infrastructure deployed in the cloud is huge, so digging our heels in with gradual adoption is perhaps the best option for many firms. Mitigate the weaknesses of the cloud by:
Quora discussion – Why or why not to migrate to the cloud?