All Eyes On Amazon Today - Infrastructure 2.0 Is The Cloud
All eys are on Amazon today. This is great news for web services in the cloud. The Infrastructure 2.0 model is moving fast. More on this story as it develops. Can’t help but get excited. I love the speed of provisioning on Amazons services but I’m very skeptical on it’s scale and reliability. This is a classic cost of ownership issue - downtime has been a problem and that costs money folks. Putting that aside I’m very bullish on the innovation for Amazon and their ecosystem of vendors to apporach close to 5-9s fast.
Keep running fast Amazon… Here’s what’s happening today:
- Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone.
- There’s now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2.
- Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2.
- Microsoft SQL Server is now available in beta form on EC2.
- We plan to release an interactive AWS management console.
- We plan to release new load balancing, automatic scaling, and cloud monitoring services.
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While I applaud the SLA and “beta” tag removal, it looks on the surface like AWS wants to compete with it’s most loyal customers - i.e. Rightscale, CohesiveFT, Ylastic, SOASTA and Informascale. Does AWS intend to develop apps a la Google? Is there a business for VARS on the AWS platform? Is there something in the water in Seattle that causes large technology customers to purposely screw their ISVs?
Comment by Phil Dewey — October 23, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
Phil,
If Amazon doesn’t figure out their partnering strategy they will fail. They are not Google they need partners. If their channel isn’t developed then those little features important for robust platform just won’t get done well.
Big companies like Amazon shouldn’t focus on the whitespace niches that another company’s entire purpose for being in business could address. Amazon has to enable the channel to make money and have a sustainable future.
Fact is most people don’t like AWS for reliability issues. I’m sorry but that is the experience. Remember most people are lazy until they start losing their instances and other resources.
Comment by John Furrier — October 23, 2008 @ 9:29 pm