Comments on: Scoop: Google, Microsoft both targeting Amazon with new clouds

By: Paul Stovell

Paul Stovell — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:11:43 +0000

Windows Azure already lets you create VM Roles. What’s the difference compared to EC2?

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:58:57 +0000

Keith, et al. This actually makes a lot of sense if one looks at the bigger picture: Bezos has a background that roots to quantitative finance in NYC (D.E. Shaw group). As much as Silicon Valley / Seattle-ites might not like to believe this, it was actually Enron who had initial aggressive plans to provide IaaS and cloud computing as a “utility” in the 1990s. Ergo, cloud computing as a utility was really got its mojo from the likes of Enron / finance!

By: DanaBlankenhorn

DanaBlankenhorn — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:16:32 +0000

I predict this means Amazon earnings compression, but maybe not in the way folks think. I expect higher Amazon profits along with a lower stock price.

By: Paul Calento

Paul Calento — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:05:57 +0000

As Keith points out, the opportunity is in the ability to move between public and private clouds, at will, as part of a converged cloud / hybrid cloud structure. But there’s still lock-in. Will be interesting to see how these compare not only to Amazon, but the OpenStack challenge.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:28:14 +0000

I laughed when they first announced this 10 years ago. I thought to myself “Who would outsource their computing to an Internet reseller?” I guess they proved me wrong.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:58:28 +0000

Yep. Everyone was saying he was insane because he was not concentrating on the main business. I remember investors were flipping out. But, he understood where the future was and how it was a perfect fit for Amazon. Pure genius.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Assuming that Hyper-V is the back end you are right. This could be revolutionary for organizations invested heavily in Hyper-V.

By: davidcdean

davidcdean — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:59:39 +0000

Always playing catch-up. Bezos’ ironfisted decree on the services strategy in 2002 was scary-genius, in a way I don’t think people really appreciate even today. That was a DECADE ago. It’s “eat your own dog food”, a brilliant way to streamline operations internally, and ridiculously accurate market forecasting, all in one move.

Rumors surrounding his personality and leadership style may be accurate, but there’s no denying, the guy is brilliant.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:21:41 +0000

I am excited about this–give me IaaS with Hyper-V so I can use this as a DR solution for my exiting Hyper-V machines. Amazon’s approach is too obtuse and everyone else seems to be heavy into the VMWare solution.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:23:00 +0000

Reblogged this on Virtualized Geek and commented: This only makes since as Microsoft will be able to leverage the improvements in Hyper-V to provide a stronger back end for their own IaaS Cloud offering. If successful they could potential challenge VMWare (or VMLimited as they call it) in the private/public cloud strategy. The ability to move from a private Hyper-V cloud to a Microsoft hosted instance will be compelling.