Amazon Cloud

[Florian Effenberger]

Hello,

we have received a voucher for the Amazon Cloud, and after playing with 
it for a while, I think it could be a good extension for our current 
infrastructure.

I would not use it for extending our general infrastructure, as 
synchronizing data between two datacenters with different frameworks can 
be tedious, but for booking compute power when needed, I think it's a 
good thing - in other words, using it as on-demand compile cluster.

Anyone has already experience with using the Amazon Cloud for compiling? 
 From what I have heard, creating Windows builds would be not such a 
good choice - not only is the Windows compute time more expensive than 
the Linux one, but it seems that in addition, "real iron" seems to be 
better.

However, for other buildbot/tinderbox tasks, is there anyone who already 
has experience? Otherwise, I'll investigate a bit on my own and see how 
we can make best use of it.

Florian