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By: Heroku Grows Up Under Salesforce.com’s Wing: Cloud Computing News «

Heroku Grows Up Under Salesforce.com’s Wing: Cloud Computing News « — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:01:45 +0000

[...] competition from well-funded startups like DotCloud, cloud leaders like Amazon Web Services (which appears to be planning its own Ruby-based PaaS offering via a partnership with Engine yard) and IT giants such as Microsoft, and that list will only keep [...]

By: DotCloud Gets $10M to Redefine Cloud Openness: Cloud Computing News «

DotCloud Gets $10M to Redefine Cloud Openness: Cloud Computing News « — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:34:09 +0000

[...] DotCloud’s service resembles a hybrid PaaS-SaaS environment, like a mix between Heroku and Amazon’s Elastic BeanStalk and CloudFormation offerings in that combines push-of-a-button deployment of application-stack [...]

By: What’s The Future of Software in a Non-Intel World?: Cloud Computing News «

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:31:11 +0000

[...] sounds similar to the issues driving the creation and adoption of platforms as a service on top of various clouds, only Eadline is arguing for a run time environment that enables high-performance computing on top [...]

By: New Private Cloud Features the Latest Act of a User-Friendly AWS: Cloud Computing News «

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:13:02 +0000

[...] viewed together with Elastic Beanstalk, AWS’s new PaaS service, and CloudFormation, AWS’s new infrastructure configuration [...]

By: DotCloud’s PaaS for the Masses Gets it $800K: Cloud Computing News «

DotCloud’s PaaS for the Masses Gets it $800K: Cloud Computing News « — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:05:44 +0000

[...] program, although it also bears a resemblance to Amazon Web Services’ recent efforts such as Elastic Beanstalk and even CloudFormation. Either way, it’s in good company. For a while now, the PaaS versus [...]

By: AWS Ramps Up Enterprise Push with CloudFormation: Cloud Computing News «

AWS Ramps Up Enterprise Push with CloudFormation: Cloud Computing News « — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:37:43 +0000

[...] to look elsewhere if they’ve already bought into the AWS hype. With CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk, especially, AWS has removed a lot of the legwork that used to make some customers search for [...]

By: After Verizon Buys Terremark, Savvis Relishes Being the Cool Kid: Cloud Computing News «

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:31:23 +0000

[...] he doesn’t intend is to move up the stack as other larger infrastructure providers are trying to do, offering platforms as a service or more software on top of the infrastructure. After the initial [...]

By: Why Amazon’s Cloud Competitors Won’t Follow into PaaS: Cloud Computing News «

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:01:15 +0000

[...] Web Services developed its own flavor of PaaS because it had to. The cleverly named Elastic Beanstalk gives the company a way to keep up with cloud development trends. That doesn’t mean the rest of [...]

By: Tanaya Cook

Tanaya Cook — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:57:22 +0000

Want to learn more about Elastic Beanstalk from a developer’s perspective? Check out this blog post to hear a first hand account from the development team who built Travel Log (http://aws.amazon.com/code/1264287584622066), the sample application AWS uses to showcase Beanstalk’s capabilities:
http://tinyurl.com/49yaw62

By: Amazon, Rackspace Add New Cloud Capabilities | JetLib News

Amazon, Rackspace Add New Cloud Capabilities | JetLib News — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:27:14 +0000

[...] auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. AWS execs tell GigaOm that Beanstalk represents a move up to Platform-as-a-Service and is designed ‘to address the idea of vendor lock-in and inflexibility that commonly [...]