Monday, July 13, 2009

Recommended blog: Elastician

Elastician is the blog of Mitch Garnaat, the author of the amazingly useful boto Python library -- a collection of modules for managing AWS resources (EC2, S3, SQS,  SimpleDB and more recently CloudWatch).

Mitch has a great picture on what he calls the 'Cloud Computing Hierarchy of Needs' (in a reference to Maslow's self-actualization hierarchy). Very insightful.

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