If I host in the cloud, do I still need things like load balancing?

Just curious whether concepts like load-balancing are going away since cloud hosting seems to take 开发者_如何学JAVAcare of such things for you?

Any ideas? Thanks!

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We run all of our servers in a cloud with Amazon. We have a VPC setup and some of our servers sit behind a virtual load-balancer within Amazon.

The answer is that yes, you can still use such functionality. Mostly it depends on how you use the cloud, what service you are with, and the load put on your systems.