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Kevin Benton wrote:
> If you don't want users to specify network details, then use the get me
> a network extension or just have them boot to a public (or other
> pre-created) network.
>
> In your thought experiment, why is your iPhone app developer not just
> using a PaaS that handles instance scaling, load balancing and HA? Why
> would he/she want to spend time managing security updates and log
> rotation for an operating system running inside another program
> pretending to be hardware? Different levels of abstraction solve
> different use cases.

Fair point, probably mr/mrs iPhone app developer should be doing that.

>
> Amazon VPC exists (and is the default) for the same reason neutron
> provides network virtualization primitives. People moving legacy apps
> onto these systems end up needing specific addressing schemes and
> isolation topologies.
>

What's a legacy app, sounds sorta dirty lol