Should Popularo Use Amazon Web Services? Hmm….
In our early beta version, we are using some of Amazon’s web services (namely S3 and SimpleDB) - but have been considering using our own storage and database instead. With today’s outage I’m not sure if AWS is a great strategy for us.
We don’t have huge amounts of data to store like some companies (smugmug comes to mind), so using AWS was mostly for the peace of mind that we would be able to scale quickly after our beta goes public and all of Digg’s users abandon them for us <evil laugh>. We have a meeting tomorrow to take a closer look at our strategy for handling lots of new traffic in a short period of time, and I have to say that it doesn’t seem likely that Amazon will be included in the party.
