Amazon 'sucks the air out of the room.' That room is now your server room

Not going to happen. Ever.<p>Reason? You need to be in control of your key assets.<p>For a non-critical website or a web service, I can see AWS taking over for some or all parts.<p>For something handling financial transactions, or for anything of a high value, no.<p>Consider a scheduling application for a company with 200 well-paid people. How much would loss of that scheduling application for the 1 hour that it is really needed per day (to set up schedules) cost?

Ugh. There is no 50% price cut. The author just misread the "Reserved Instances" post on the AWS blog.<p>Too bad. I actually had my hopes up for a minute there. Then somebody asked for an official statement and the author referenced that blog entry, which only deals with 24/7 instances, and even then wouldn't be a 50% saving unless you committed to a 3 year contract.<p>So yeah, nothing to see here.