Amazon's new pricing model bolsters disaster recovery
- TAGS:cloud computing, disaster recovery
- IT TOPICS:Cloud Computing, Data Center
I've thought one of the least commented benefits of using cloud services such as Amazon's EC2 is for disaster recovery. Disaster recovery and emergency data backup can be one of the most cumbersome, expensive and error prone IT projects you can undertake.
Not only do you have to bear the costs of building a remote backup facility, but you need to regularly run the data to make sure all the computing systems are patched, up to date and able to read the data. Why not just move all the agony to the cloud.
Someone at Amazon must have heard. This week they began a reserved pricing model which will assure you have the capacity when you need it. Makes sense to me.
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