White House follows Endeavour Partners’ lead

It’s nice to be a trailblazer…. Following our recent move to using Amazon’s cloud to host our information technology infrastructure, we’re delighted to see that the White House has recognized the wisdom of our choice and followed our lead:

Earlier today in a blog post on WhiteHouse.gov, federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced that Recovery.gov would be moving to the cloud. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board’s primary contractor,Smartronix, chose Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to host the site. NASA has used EC2 for testing, but this will be the first time a government website — a “.gov” — has been hosted on Amazon’s EC2.

Hiatus

We’re back; the recent hiatus arose from our migrating all of our information technology infrastructure to cloud services.

There were two motivations for this:

1. Better service for us
2. Investment in learning about the reality of working with cloud services

We will be posting about our experiences doing this, as it was very instructive. For those who are curious, we’re using WordPress and Zimbra running on Amazon.

The transition is now complete, so watch this space.