[chef] Re: EC2 and VPC

[Greg Symons < >]

On 02/28/2013 04:34 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're using AWS VPCs for our new product platform here. We ran into some 
initial hiccups getting it started, mostly with the VPN tunnels (Amazon 
didn't support our older Cisco ASA, so we had to get a software solution 
up). Once we were through those first issues, though, we haven't had any 
real problems related to being in a VPC, other than some internal tools 
that weren't originally written with VPCs and subnets in mind.

Greg