Ask HN: what is your wishlist for cloud computing features?

by friendstock on 5/5/2010, 6:03 AM with 2 comments

I will be speaking on a panel to discuss features that developers want for cloud hosting (e.g. related to security, payment, storage, performance)...

What's on your wishlist?

What do you wish EC2/AppEngine/Heroku/... could do?

  • by cperciva on 5/5/2010, 6:53 AM

    What do you wish EC2 [...] could do?

    FreeBSD!

    Or maybe I should say that I wish FreeBSD could do EC2, since this is currently blocked by deficiencies in FreeBSD's Xen code. Either way, I wish I could stop using Ubuntu.

  • by jacquesm on 5/5/2010, 2:40 PM

    Single image, multiple machines.

    That would be a pretty big step.

    Then we can finally forget about things like cluster topology and inter-node transfers because they would all be completely transparent.

    A node breaking would simply cause the unified virtual machine to become a little slower.