I, like many others in the web development industry, are huge fans of cloud services from Amazon, RackSpace and others.

The question of does Google index content in the cloud has come up in the past. The question on how Google handles content delivery networks and CDN rankings has come up as well. I’ve even written a post on how to use Amazon S3 with SEO benefit.

That being said, there is a new post about another Amazon Web Service named Elastic Load Balancing where on user of the service is considered Google won’t be able to figure out the site and the content.

The webmaster posted his concerns in a Google Webmaster Help thread asking:

JohnMu from Google answers his concerns saying it shouldn’t be an issue but GoogleBot may act a bit slower to crawl and index content. Here is John’s full explanation:

So keep this in mind when using the Amazon Elastic Load Balancing solution for your server configuration.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.