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Real world example of moving 100% to the cloud

Cloud architecture isn't dramatically different than on-premise, though some inherent advantages make it a worthwhile deployment option.

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Dave Rosenberg Co-founder, MuleSource
Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, co-founder of MuleSoft, and managing director for Hardy Way. He is an adviser to DataStax, IT Database, and Puppet Labs.
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Soocial running on Amazon Web Services
Soocial.com running on Amazon Web Services Soocial.com

Examples of architectures designed to run on Amazon Web Services are a great way to illustrate the necessary design changes and patterns associated with a cloud deployment methodology.

Soocial.com, a "one address book solution to contact management" runs entirely on AWS and uses some interesting technologies to make their service work, including RabbitMQ, an open-source implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high-performance enterprise messaging. (I've written about AMQP and RabbitMQ here, and here in the past.)

One of the most interesting things is how the architecture isn't dramatically different than it would be if you were to build an on-premise version--except that Soocial is able to take advantage the Amazon Web Services EC2's scale, hot-standby, and backups. It's definitely worth learning more about if you are interested in the cloud.

Via Amazon Web Services blog.