it's really important to work the figures as seen in the article. We use EC2 but for certain scenarios we worked out that hardware would be cheaper. The bandwidth costs in particular can sneaky.
All that said I would be prepared to pay quite a premium for using Ec2, especially in conjunction with Rightscale, just for the shear convince and the ease with which we can re-configure and adapt.
it's really important to work the figures as seen in the article. We use EC2 but for certain scenarios we worked out that hardware would be cheaper. The bandwidth costs in particular can sneaky.
All that said I would be prepared to pay quite a premium for using Ec2, especially in conjunction with Rightscale, just for the shear convince and the ease with which we can re-configure and adapt.