Comments on: Question of the Day: Can Amazon make a science out of launching statups?

By: wayne

wayne — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:18:33 +0000

I agree — at the end of the day where is a CEO’s time best spent: thinking about how to scale his servers due to a jump in traffic, or working with marketing to get even more traffic?

The only thing I’m waiting on is for Amazon to release some type of persistent database solution.}

By: bwagy

bwagy — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:30:37 +0000

Its a great move by Amazon if you think about it. Paypal worked in by slotting themselves in the middle of payments skimming a few percent off the top. If Amazon can do the same for internet services, no matter the hype of one type of service or another if they fuel the architecture they will always have a piece of the cake. Smart move.}

By: trush

trush — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:16:30 +0000

AWS is really a great resource for startups. We were fortunate to get into the beta early on. It allowed our developers to work with it from the start and put the power of scale-up into our hands.

At a fraction of the cost of classic server setups, both EC2 and S3 are really compelling choices. While we are building, our server costs are minimal and we have the capability to quickly scale up in line with demand. That’s been huge.

Recently, AWS evangelists have been making the rounds and touting these benefits. It’s great because as a bootstrapped startup, more capital can flow into developing the product and less into underutilized server capacity.}