2009 May « RightScale Blog

2009 May « RightScale Blog: "Finally the auto-scaling service is something that has been lacking in many users’ mind from EC2: we’ve often heard from people looking at EC2 the first time “you mean Amazon doesn’t automatically launch more instances when my app is overloaded?” Amazon now has an answer for those questions, which was badly needed. However, unless we’re missing something, there’s nothing additional to our current offering, but we’ll keep listening to what our customers tell us. We believe that the most difficult part of auto-scaling isn’t the actual launching of servers but that it’s lining up all the configuration management and lifecycle management so the new servers go into production successfully, and that dynamic runtime self-configuration is where RightScale really shines."