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We've been using Amazon's EC2 for several years on around a dozen projects. We love it. Its now our standard for new projects. We also like a number of services that have been layered on top of AWS such as Heroku. Recently we've started working with Azure for some of our New York clients who have .NET projects.

We've played with Google's App Engine, but haven't deployed any commercial applications using it primarily due to restrictions of the container (i.e. it didn't support some libraries we wanted to use) and the fact it spins down the application when it is idle.

I'm curious how other companies in Hawaii are making use of cloud platforms. What are you doing in the cloud? What platform(s) are you using?

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Hello Daniel,

In response to "What are you doing in the cloud?"...I work at Welltheon where we have created a SaaS solution for the health care market. Our solution allows the patient to register from home (once), processes patient admissions, creates and stores electronic medical records and captures payment upon checkout. We currently support IE, Firefox, and Safari. Check us out at www.welltheon.com It is free to patients.

We link/sync to Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. Do you or anyone you know use these applications?

What are your thoughts regarding our solution sitting in the cloud?

Doug Forsell
If I may use the term cloud computing broadly enough to include SaaS, here's an apropos blog post on the main drawback, that it's out of the organization's own control. Google Apps has this guy's email account shut down for maintenance for 3 days (and counting).

By the way, Dan, I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear that UH is starting to migrate its email to Google Apps For Education now. The ITS department is going first, to work out the issues. I just migrated my UH email account last week.
Hi Dave - I'm very happy that UH is making the move.

re: the CrunchGear article

I think its important to note that they are using the free version, and that this is the exception and not the rule. We've set up dozens of domains and have never had that problem.
I'm sure you noticed that the latest version of GAE lets you keep your app spun up on three servers for $9/mo.

Update: We now have a Heroku app in production. Thus far we are very happy with it.

 

@Les - Thank you for the update re: GAE. I missed that announcement. That is certainly good news for the platform!

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