[fuzzmeister]

That is entirely wrong. With AWS, we've built a multi-AZ load balanced infrastructure for very little time and money. Getting an equivalent setup out of our own hardware would have been orders of magnitude more expensive and time consuming.

[vdondeti]

Can you please explain how you built a multi-AZ load balanced infrastructure, given that Amazon's ELB only load balances within a given AZ. I assume you used some external service. Would you mind providing the details. Thanks.

[fuzzmeister]

ELB load balances very easily across availability zones. In fact, that pretty much seems to be the setup they expect you to use. It doesn't allow you to balance across regions, though, which may be what you mean.

[vdondeti]

Ya, thanks for the response. I went and double checked what ELB does. I was looking for a way to load balance across regions. I know some services that can do it, but are quite expensive.