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bakunin
Cloud services are nice when you need systems for testing for a limited amount of time and you don't want to hold the hardware resources for this. If you need a system to test your new database with meaningless test data then Amazon cloud, Microsoft Azure or whatever else you prefer is for you. If you need a reliable productive system you better have control over every clock cycle the underlying machine offers.
bakunin
Yes, that is certainly a good case for cloud services.
I also use cloud services for the same, but on a limited basis.
We used to run UNIX.COM in the cloud many years ago, but it was just a PITA compared to a top end dedicated box.
If we were not so "old and long in the tooth" here at UNIX.COM and did not have so much legacy PHP code, I might consider the cloud again, but we have far too much legacy code for cloud services.