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I'm looking for examples of successful cloud computing migrations with any of these attributes:

  • High traffic
  • In depth explanation of what they did:
    • Did the go with an internal cloud, IaaS, PaaS, or some hybrid approach?
    • Did they have to rewrite any code?
    • Did they have to migrate data structures?
  • How successful was the migration in terms of:
    • Time savings
    • Money savings
    • Added functionality or anything else?

If you know of anything interesting please share!

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  • This whole cloud computing hype is just ridiculous. – LukeN Jul 21 '10 at 14:16
  • It does seem to me like a reinvention of the time-sharing mainframe. – Brian Hooper Jul 21 '10 at 14:17
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    Why would saving money and easily scaling computing power be ridiculous? I agree that marketing goes overboard with it but I don't think most of us programmers buy into that hype. – Abdullah Jibaly Jul 21 '10 at 14:21
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    Its not ridiculous. Most people don't know the first thing about cost effectively running 20K machines. The cloud allows economies of scale for infrastructure cost. – Steve Severance Jul 21 '10 at 16:46
  • i agree. the "hype" is ridiculous, but the solution, as it applies in correct situations, is not. it's a generic multi-core processing system applied to a (presumably) multi-thread-ready code base. loose on the term "thread" here. upgrading from one box with N cores to M boxes with N cores each is no joke. and writing the routing and load-balancing yourself is what's truly ridiculous. that's as good as rewriting a thread library. ;-P – eruciform Jul 21 '10 at 17:36

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I just found a whole list based on Amazon Web Services here. There are also some PDF case studies for Eucalyptus (Yankee Group and Wells Fargo).

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