Comments on: Werner Vogels Explains Amazon Web Services' Philosophy

By: Amazon are the most innovative company « The Bankwatch

Amazon are the most innovative company « The Bankwatch — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:15:00 +0000

[...] Jeff Bezos is obsessed with waste Amazon Web Services, meanwhile, offers some of the company’s technology to others. Amazon’s “other revenue” — [...]

By: Why Jeff Bezos Is Obsessed With Waste

Why Jeff Bezos Is Obsessed With Waste — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:01:50 +0000

[...] Amazon Web Services, meanwhile, offers some of the company’s technology to others. Amazon’s “other revenue” — which includes that of AWS — totaled $550 million in the last 12 months, up 32 percent from a year earlier. Drug companies like Eli Lilly are using its Elastic Compute Cloud to analyze clinical trials; other customers include ESPN, Autodesk and several hedge funds. Amazon is reaching out to academics in need of cloud computing as well. [...]

By: Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers

Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:24:41 +0000

[...] Werner Vogels Explains Amazon’s web services philosophy [...]

By: Amazon Launches Persistent Storage for EC2 - GigaOM

Amazon Launches Persistent Storage for EC2 - GigaOM — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:19:44 +0000

[...] Amazon has announced Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), persistent storage offering that can be used in tandem with applications using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon first started talking about this back in April, sharing some details about the service. (More about their road map, here.) [...]

By: Toon Vanagt

Toon Vanagt — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:52:57 +0000

At the GigaOM Structure 08 conference, Werner Vogels dedicated a book on his cloud offering. At Virtualization.com we are giving it away in a contest. The lucky winner will get a free copy of O’Reilly’s Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB (Programming), with the hand-signed note from Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels inside!
More info: Win O’Reilly’s Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB and here http://is.gd/1aZJ

By: tss

tss — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:20:38 +0000

Internet facing applications with a pay-as-you-go service like search (SearchBlox – http://www.searchblox.com/searchbloxami.html) will be easier for enterprises to move to the cloud as it makes the most sense. Applications with sensitive data may be a little slower to jump on to the bandwagon.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:33:41 +0000

Wow, what a misleading headline: does Amazon pay you to create headlines that have nothing to do with the blog post? Startups are safe on EC2 because they announced ONE obvious feature ahead of time? Expectations must run pretty low at GigaOm. Here’s an employee review of Amazon’s engineering culture for their own internal projects:

http://coderific.com/ratings/37

Would you really want to outsource your infrastructure to a company which has a horrible track record for their own internal engineering? I have no axe to grind with Amazon myself but the disconnect between the hype and the reality of AWS, its business model, and their engineering is disconcerting. I guess it got them what they really wanted as their stock shot up to double its already overvalued price last year because the nitwits on Wall Street thought AWS now made AMZN a “high-tech” Google competitor. All AWS is a decent platform for occasional batch processing and maybe digg insurance but not much more.

By: Building a business on AWS? Don’t worry, Amazon won’t kill you « Wille Faler’s Buzzword Bingo

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:16:34 +0000

[...] June 27, 2008 Posted by Wille in Emerging Trends, Entrepreneurship, Technology. trackback Interesting piece from Om Malik’s broadband blog: But when it came to persistent storage, he pointed out, they started talking about it as soon as [...]