Comments on: All Eyes On Amazon Today - Infrastructure 2.0 Is The Cloud http://broaddev.com/2008/10/23/all-eyes-on-amazon-today-infrastructure-20-is-the-cloud/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:55:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John Furrier http://broaddev.com/2008/10/23/all-eyes-on-amazon-today-infrastructure-20-is-the-cloud/#comment-936 John Furrier Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:29:27 +0000 http://broaddev.com/?p=232#comment-936 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. 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.

]]> By: Phil Dewey http://broaddev.com/2008/10/23/all-eyes-on-amazon-today-infrastructure-20-is-the-cloud/#comment-932 Phil Dewey Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:45:11 +0000 http://broaddev.com/?p=232#comment-932 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? 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?

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