[chef] Re: EC2 and VPC

[Paul Graydon < >]

On 02/28/2013 12:34 AM, Sam Darwin wrote:
> For Amazon users, are you using plain ec2 or the VPC offering?
> Why have you switched to VPC?
> Why haven't you switched to VPC?
>
> For context, there may be a difference between standard corporate enterprises
> and fast-moving web-based startups.   We are in the latter category and using
> chef to provision the servers.
We've started using VPC here too, although now it looks like we're not 
going to be doing much of a migration to AWS that we were planning 
originally.
Apart from just the few initial quirks to figure out (e.g. machines in 
the non-public subnet can't access the internet without setting up a NAT 
/ route somewhere) it's looking great, and our security auditor was 
rather enthusiastic about us using it over straight EC2 as you've go 
additional layers of security.
The impression I got from the Tech Sales folk at Amazon was that their 
current aim is to make everything VPC and that plain EC2 would be become 
a 2nd class citizen at best.

Paul