[CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

Thu May 7 15:19:04 UTC 2009
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Sean Carolan
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:06
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to 
> the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)
> 
> > So, unless they are happy to come back and start talking to 
> us again I 
> > highly recommend everyone not bother using EC2.
> >
> > - KB
> 
> I had the exact same experience when trying to get a sales 
> rep to talk to me about hosting an application for my 
> company.  We need to know that someone will be there to pick 
> up the phone when there are problems, and I couldn't get 
> anyone to call me back to answer my questions.  I guess 
> Amazon doesn't care too much about the customer service end 
> of AWS.  We'd feel a lot more confident about putting our 
> application onto their cloud if someone would at least return 
> my phone calls and emails.  So not too surprising that they 
> gave you the brush-off, given that they won't even call back 
> a customer with dollars in hand, ready to spend.

Quoting from their website:

"Inexpensive - Amazon EC2 passes on to you the financial benefits of Amazon's
scale. You pay a very low rate for the compute capacity you actually consume."

Remember, these are surplus resources that would otherwise be cost of doing
business. 

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