Amazon's elastic cloud (EC2) technology is brilliant and used by some online subversion hosts however myVersionControl have no intention of moving your service to Amazon's servers.
At first glance the benefits of the service are compelling, huge redundancy and massively scalable - we can easily see why our competitors have chosen to use the service over old fashioned 'real' servers in datacentres. What EC2 cannot provide at this time is:
- Provide a cast iron guarantee (SLA) that they will keep the service alive all the time. In fact they reserve the right to switch it off at any time (Amazon terms and conditions 7.1). This means that downtime will be both indeterminable and out of our control. This represents an unacceptable situation for us. Our servers are distributed across datacentres and have multiple redundancy built in to our own design and satisfaction. No-one may switch off our servers without prior authorisation and we are not affected by unknown threats posed by Amazon's other EC2 customers.
- Amazon cannot guarantee the security of the data they store (Amazon terms and conditions 7.2). Lets be frank here, within our own terms and conditions we have some get outs however you can be sure that we go to extraordinary lengths to keep your data private. All our servers are physically secure, the datacentres we choose for our servers have 24 hour manned security including CCTV, patrolled boundaries and multiple levels of authorisation. Decommissioned servers are also securely disposed of with the data disk receiving 'special attention'. We are both the architect and custodian of our security procedures and have complete control over how we implement this. We believe that we are better placed to police our gates than some unknown entity.
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