Lots of people focus on the shared nature of cloud computing. There are other risks, some are really simple. Contractual Issues – like what happens when you are late on payment, or your credit card transaction gets bounced. You might think that taking your website down isn’t correct. You could find out you lose everything, […]
Amazon just released GPU cluster rentals by the hour. It allows custom mathematical and scientific applications to run much fast than on intel CPUs. Its not necessarily very useful for general business or web applications, but it does show both how committed amazon is to scalability, and that there is an increasing number of solutions out there. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/11/15/announcing-cluster-gpu-instances-for-amazon-ec2/