Comments on: Amazon’s New CDN Offering - Cheap CDN For New The Masses http://broaddev.com/2008/09/19/amazons-new-cdn-offering-cheap-cdn-for-new-the-masses/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:20:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Edward Vielmetti http://broaddev.com/2008/09/19/amazons-new-cdn-offering-cheap-cdn-for-new-the-masses/#comment-785 Edward Vielmetti Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:30:47 +0000 http://broaddev.com/?p=192#comment-785 Note that this really isn't that different from what a whole bunch of people have been doing so far with Amazon's S3 and EC2; the game changing piece is that rather than having to code up an Amazon hosted external cache, you can pretty much just turn it on. "No commitments" in the Amazon AWS space is a bit misleading. Yes, there are no contractual minimum service costs (as I'm happy to note each month when Amazon bills me for a penny), but you do have to write code, and that code is not portable to another system without a bunch of work. So there is a sunk cost in implementing AWS and you may actually have a commitment to it larger than nominal if you start making architectural decisions that depend on their existence and pricing structures. Note that this really isn’t that different from what a whole bunch of people have been doing so far with Amazon’s S3 and EC2; the game changing piece is that rather than having to code up an Amazon hosted external cache, you can pretty much just turn it on.

“No commitments” in the Amazon AWS space is a bit misleading. Yes, there are no contractual minimum service costs (as I’m happy to note each month when Amazon bills me for a penny), but you do have to write code, and that code is not portable to another system without a bunch of work. So there is a sunk cost in implementing AWS and you may actually have a commitment to it larger than nominal if you start making architectural decisions that depend on their existence and pricing structures.

]]> By: Amazon gets (a little bit) into the CDN business - Security and the Net http://broaddev.com/2008/09/19/amazons-new-cdn-offering-cheap-cdn-for-new-the-masses/#comment-760 Amazon gets (a little bit) into the CDN business - Security and the Net Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:51:39 +0000 http://broaddev.com/?p=192#comment-760 [...] gets (a little bit) into the CDN business Sep.19, 2008 in General, News There is a lot of talk about Amazon getting into the Content Delivery business this week, but there is very little information available yet. The most important pars of the [...] [...] gets (a little bit) into the CDN business Sep.19, 2008 in General, News There is a lot of talk about Amazon getting into the Content Delivery business this week, but there is very little information available yet. The most important pars of the [...]

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