[pbrumm]

well written.

Things I would add to the Good side.

- ability to commit to multi year cpu/ram without upfront costs

- they can live migrate your vm to new physical hardware, so no need to have random reboots of your instances

- https load balancers allow traffic around the world to enter google network closest to user, this reduces handshakes and reduces comcast like outages to affect users.

the above greatly decrease my stress.

[stephengillie]

> they can live migrate your vm to new physical hardware, so no need to have random reboots of your instances

Having supported VMWare at multiple locations, and having worked for a smaller cloud host, it shocks me that AWS don't support live migrations. VMWare can live-migrate VMs between datacenters in different geographic regions, while maintaining active sessions!

[wikibob]

Technical debt. AWS had first mover advantage but now is saddled with the decisions they had to make to move fast at the time.

[ebikelaw]

I guess that closeness to user got eliminated from the “good” list since Google’s FELB is serving 502 to this author’s customers.

[dantiberian]

They did eventually stop serving sporadic 502's, I've updated the post to make that a bit clearer.

[pbrumm]

maybe. We haven't had any issues with it over last year. The comcast outage last week probably affected more customers.