NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Federico Ulfo <rainelemental at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt thanks for point that out, with your correction now I feel even more
> happy to have choose Rackspace for my project.
> I found funny that both AWS and RS didn't fix many of the issues you listed
> in your article one year ago!

A little late on this thread, but another problem with EC2 is that
Amazon, because of its massive consumer retail operation and global
profile, is a much bigger and juicier target for attackers than
Rackspace or Linode.

I have never liked the idea that I order books and shoes with the same
user account that has control of my servers. Of course you can and
should create a separate account just for AWS admin, but you can't
limit an account to *only* AWS access, so the attack surface is much
larger than it should be.