Three Lessons from AWS Rolling Reboots

Three takeaways from the AWS rolling reboot of EC2 instances:

1. Architecting apps to be cloud-ready is key

2. Architecting massive-scale clouds to handle massive-scale updates is critical to a successful security strategy; see #1

3. AWS again shows that the web scale cloud model has distinct advantages over enterprise clouds running legacy enterprise apps that can’t support rapid cycling of many VMs in a short period of time

Here’s a roundup of what else is being said:

• GigaOm

• PCWorld

• San Francisco Chronicle

• Computer Reseller News

• Light Reading

• CMS Wire