Comments on: Amazon, Now Offering Computing On Demand

By: Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers

Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:24:30 +0000

[...] Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon today introduced a new variation of its EC2 service, Reserved Instances, that come with a new pricing model. The new offering, which requires a [...]

By: How Not to End Up as an Anachronism - GigaOM

How Not to End Up as an Anachronism - GigaOM — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:06:57 +0000

[...] leveraging service options like Amazon’s EC2 and S3, a small company can deploy a complex, highly available and scalable multi-user software [...]

By: C. Enrique Ortiz

C. Enrique Ortiz — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:27:53 +0000

This is going to kill companies like Surgient, who are in the business of server virtualization…

The folks at Amazon, who I'm sure have a huge server infrastructure similar to Google (except Amazon is more quiet about it) maybe decided to maximize all that infrastructure thru virtualization -- which is a great idea, especially the way or approach they have taken, open-and-web services-based. I'm impressed w/ the things Amazon is doing and is capable of doing… On the product names, I like them, they are different, and reflects the type of thinking at Amazon…

ceo

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:20:30 +0000

I bet the VC firms that extract huge fees for doing little more than providing mucho capital for ordering servers for scaling are going to be VERY DISAPPOINTED!

bwahahaha.

By: corporaterat

corporaterat — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:50:05 +0000

Dave,
By almost commoditizing infrastructure, Amazon is effectively telling ISVs ‘Use our network to offer anything to anyone’ at scalability, performance and speed levels that rival the best of best infrastructures like those hosted by Google. Therefore, they, according to me have struck at the ‘root’, which is an affordable and powerful infrastructure, that will let anyone deploy services such as email, VoD and whatever else. If Amazon started this as an ‘application’ like mail, it would be only for a niche market. Instead, Amazon is ‘long-tailing’ the applications – and letting the software vendors decide the killer application and their target audience. Whatever is hosted, its their servers and network. Added bonus: imagine the amount of content that will incrementally be made available to Amazon for personalized services. Afterall, one of the most important requirements of personalized services is availability of multiple content streams for users :-)

By: Dave Nielsen

Dave Nielsen — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:49:09 +0000

Here are the Google and Microsoft Email offerings:

Windows Live Mail: http://ideas.live.com
Gmail for your domain: http://www.google.com/hosted

By: pwb

pwb — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:48:22 +0000

So do I have to upload php, mysqlserver, smtp server, etc. or is that stuff available (as it would be with a hosting provider)? do i get ruby, mono, perl, postgres? I still don't understand what "it" is?

By: Dave Nielsen

Dave Nielsen — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:40:31 +0000

Why don't they offer an email hosting service too? It seems like Amazon is missing the low-hanging fruit. Google and Microsoft have gone after email hosting, which is much higher in demand, easier for developers to get up and running, and may lead to this type of offering. If so, Google and MSFT would have a much larger install base to offer this type of service too. In the end, Amazon may be first to market with this type of service, but Google & Microsoft may beat them to the broader market.

By: Wes Felter

Wes Felter — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:17:02 +0000

Yes, it's hosting. It is more expensive than a small VPS ($20/month).

Who is it for? Think of those Web 2.0 startups who are putting all their data in S3 so that they can grow 1000% per month; now they can host everything at Amazon. And when they get Dugg/TechCrunched, they can scale up for a day. It remains to be seen whether it has mainstream appeal, but the idea is cool.

By: pwb

pwb — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:08:33 +0000

This sounds interesting but I can't really figure out what it is/ Is it just hosting? Can I put my php/Mysql app in it?