Amazon Web Services Blog: Big Day for Amazon EC2

Amazon’s recent announcment of the production relase of their leading cloud platform EC2 had a very intersting embedded note.

Amazon EC2 now offers customers a Service level agreement (SLA). This sounds great, but what does it really mean for your business reliability? If your EC2 service is not up for at least 99.95% within your availability zone, then Amazon will give you a 10% discount on the following years subscription costs. This is not bad for a broad brush approach, but what do you do if you need to provide your own more fine grained business SLA to your customers as?

sense provides business SLA enforcement on Amazon’s EC2 platform. This means you can add an SLA to your applications or service and sense will automatically manage and instantiate additional AMI’s with the required platform and application software and add this resource to the pool available for application execution. This ensures that your high value applications receive the computing resources they need at the time they need it – and you only pay for what you use.

With flexibility to also include J2EE and virtualization solutions along with the Amazon EC2 Platform, you could also increase your overall relaibility by adding a small cluster to your Amazon platofmr or adding Amazon EC2 to extend your own server farm.

Whichever way you look at, with sense and Amazon cloud computing has just gotten SLA savvy

Amazon Web Services Blog: Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities.