SLers Are You Feeling the Uplift Into the Cloud? 'Cause It's Happening

Originally announced to happen by end of 2018, it looks like Second Life will finally move into the Amazon cloud by end of 2020, says Oz Linden as only Oz can:

We've been working hard on the Uplift of Second Life. If you have not been following this project, that's what we're calling the migration of our Second Life simulators, services, and websites from a private datacenter to hosting in The Cloud (Amazon Web Services)... Overall, the Uplift project is on track to be complete or very nearly so by the end of this year (yes, 2020… I know I've said "fall" before and people have noted that I didn't say what year 🙂 ; the leaves haven't finished falling at my house yet…). It's likely that there will be other (hopefully small) temporary disruptions during this process, but we promise we'll do all we can to avoid them and fix them as fast as we can. This migration sets the stage for some significant improvements to Second Life and positions us to be able to grow the world well into the future.

More here. Cloud transfers are even being announced in grid status updates. Substantial performance improvements are promised. But are you feeling it yet from your part of the virtual world?

#SecondLife Residents - BE ADVISED:

Linden Lab has begun moving regions to the cloud as of today, October 20th, 2020! Linden Lab to our knowledge has not disclosed which regions will be moved, but moved region types are both Main and Release Candidate.https://t.co/ODDvH6tIgA

— MIRAI Group (@MIRAIGroup) October 20, 2020

Hat tip: Region-crossing explorer Nodoka Hanamura.

Comments

[Adeon Writer]

Hope that residents will see some of that cost reduction forwarded to them.

[Nodoka Hanamura (MIRAI)]

@Adeon

I've heard that talks internally on slashing tier and other fees are on the docket, but will probably only happen once things have settled and Linden Lab have a strong picture of what their costs after the uplift will be, rather than just predictions.

[Carlos_Loff]

LL keeps cutting SL potential by not allowing small fish ($) to settle and develop, is a poor content snowball effect, rolling downhil