Amazon Elastic Cloud - EC2

I am seriously considering to change to the amazon cloud. Reason for Amazon and NOT azure is the following.

- Proven track record (azure quite new)
- I got more confidence that there is not hidden costs in amazon (ms tend to put new stuff on and also pricing license scheme often)
- Fast in ASIA my selling point is that amazon now have a dedicated outlet to Asia - i wanna sell stuff in Thailand too. So this is a major selling point that it's fast globally.

Does anybody have experience with the cloud at amazon - anybody tried to setup nopcommerce.

Also i've read these:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=26118&start=15&tstart=0
http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/11/bad-storage-performance-on-amazon-ec2-windows-servers/

Should I be concerned about it, does Azure have issues like this?

Also, as EC2 is instances - what to do if all things crashes... what is best recover strategy?

I think that NOPcommerce teams should get more energy into investigating these things, cloud'ing is becoming more and more evident as a good ROI

Hope to get a good discussion about it :).

/chris

I haven't worked with Amazon EC2 services. But I think the following link about running nopCommerce on Windows Azure could help you - https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/1502/nopcommerce-running-on-azure.aspx

Thanks andrei.

But my turning point is that there's no plan of getting azure locally hosted in Asia (as far as I know). EC2 is already there.

And I am in doubt about maturity and pricing of azure yet..

But I guess much of the stuff relevant to Azure would also be relevant to EC2.....

stoffer wrote:
Agree, that's why I shared this link here

Azure for apac region is hosted/replicated in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Don't think you will have an issue with serving up sites/content in Asia.