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I can only imagine what management (and my co-workers) would say if I told them we'll allow our proprietary code to be splattered across various Amazon servers just so we can build it faster. I think they'd laugh at me. I've heard of numerous instances of these cloud apps doing stupid things with your data (see the recent Google news about them accidentally sharing private documents). For anyone in any kind of regulated or highly competitive environment, you just can't use a service like this. I always tend to look at these products mostly from my own point of view, but all of these cloud things are completely useless for, I think, a considerable chunk of "enterprise" development. You just can't let other people handle things like message queues and basic storage for you on their own servers if you at all care about controlling your own destiny and privacy of the data.

If you are worried about running it on EC2 you can install Eucalyptus and run it inside your enterprise. You still get the ability to run mixed workloads on your systems - maybe Web traffic at peak hours and bamboo builds in the quiet times. Paul

Hi Paul, This is a great idea.. we have not yet tried this ourselves, but it's definitely something we'll play around with in the future. Stay tuned and we'll let you know how it goes. Thanks, Ken

He would probably stop laughing after he asked you to estimate the dollar cost of performing the build in your current data center environment versus the cost of performing the same build on a cloud server. He will definitely stop laughing when his boss asks the same question...

He would probably stop laughing after he asked you to estimate the dollar cost of performing the build in your current data center environment versus the cost of performing the same build on a cloud server.

He will definitely stop laughing when his boss asks the same question...

The initial raw dollar cost of a service should never be used in isolation to make a decision.

He would probably stop laughing after he asked you to estimate the dollar cost of performing the build in your current data center environment versus the cost of performing the same build on a cloud server.

He will definitely stop laughing when his boss asks the same question...

The cost of doing builds is nearly free for even mammoth code bases with current hardware. We reuse hardware from our certification environment to do nightly builds and automated integration tests. I think a lot of others do the same thing. The hardware is already there, space and power are paid for, so we reuse it. I'm just not seeing the point of using cloud hardware to do builds for the vast majority of "enterprise" development shops. If you're "enterprise", you've already got a load of hardware that's probably not utilized 24/7 that can be used for stuff like this (assuming, of course, you have rationale IT people who aren't control freaks). Again, I'm looking at this from the point of view of dev shops I've worked in. We have the freedom to do things like reuse certification hosts to do our builds. I understand that some shops might not have that freedom and would have to procure dedicated hosts to do their builds. In that case, data center space might start to look expensive. But I maintain that to be a small majority of development shops.

I can only imagine what management (and my co-workers) would say if I told them we'll allow our proprietary code to be splattered across various Amazon servers just so we can build it faster.

Oh please. This is my third time around this particular block. Only prior it was source code on mainframes in IBM/Hitachi/Bull/EDS/ad infinitum datacenters, and you needed deep pockets to pay for those mainframe cycles and storage. Granted, there are still kinks, but they are being addressed and I can see them being worked out in the next year or two. Everything old is new again.

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