Two articles about scalability issues in the Cloud came out the same day in Data Center Knowledge. One about Rackspace and the other about Amazon — companies running two of the biggest thunderheads in the “sky.” While Amazon said, “We do not have over-capacity issues,” Rackspace fessed up and said, “We have not been able to fully identify the root cause of these unusual issues.”
I’m wondering if smaller cloud clusters might ultimately be more practical. Although they might not realize the economics of scale found in the bigger cloud formations, it seems like the scalability and reliability issues would be less complex.