Don Doge is dead right; you don’t want your data and services “in the cloud” when a denial of service attack on Amazon can render your S3, EC2 backed site dead.
What you want are 50 Amazon Web Service providers. 50 Google App Engine providers. A million Twitters. Twelve lords-a-leaping and no single partridge in a pear tree.
The Amazon EC2 APIs needs to be standardised, S3 too, Google App Engine needs to be open-sourced and all of it should be spread across the net. Companies big and small should be able to offer Amazon EC2. EMIs should be transferable between any of the standardised services.
It is like hosting is today, distributed, but with the “fire up a server in 2 seconds” ease that Amazon EC2 offers. If your backup is good then when your Oracle EC2 provider goes down you just fire up an instance on Verizon’s EC2 array and run your app from there. You can even automate this with the lowest-cost/best-service provider taking over as offers, policies and conditions change.
Live in the world wide cloud, don’t live in just Amazon’s cloud.
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