The CloudFormation Circle of Life : Part 1
From the post:
AWS CloudFormation makes it easier for you to create, update, and manage your AWS resources in a predictable way. Today, we are announcing a new feature for AWS CloudFormation that allows you to add or remove resources from your running stack, enabling your stack to evolve as its requirements change over time. With AWS CloudFormation, you can now manage the complete lifecycle the AWS resources powering your application.
I think there is a name for this sort of thing. Innovation, that’s right! That’s the name for it!
As topic map services move into the clouds, being able to take advantage of resource stacks is likely to be important. Particularly if you have mapping empowered resources that can be placed in a stack of resources.
The “cloud” in general looks like an opportunity to move away from ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) into more of an ET (Extract-Transform) model. Particularly if you take a functional view of data. Will save on storage costs, particularly if the data sets are quite large.
Definitely a service that anyone working with topic maps in the cloud needs to know more about.