Comments on: Amazon’s AWS Strategy Becomes Clearer Every Day

By: eungju's me2DAY

eungju's me2DAY — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:44:49 +0000

EP의 생각…

The huge irony is that the Fortune 500 doesn’t know that their rogue developers are already using AWS inside their company without approval, ……

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:29:30 +0000

How is this any different than any other web services provider? They are just marketing from Amazon now. Wasn’t there a failed company that let you use cloud computing about 10 years ago from Marc Andreesen and it was going to be the next big thing? We’ll see how this pans out. History often rhymes.

By: Troy McConaghy

Troy McConaghy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:06:24 +0000

Jeff Barr, Senior Web Services Evangelist for Amazon.com, was giving talks about AWS in Second Life years ago. Back then, SL was a real hotbed of innovators and early adopters (and in many ways, it still is). Here's Jeff's SL profile.

By: Andy Baker

Andy Baker — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:00:28 +0000

I agree with your point about customer service being Google’s weak spot. If they think ‘post a question on our forum’ is a satisfactory support strategy for people whose reputation depends on solving critical issues then they are going to hit a brick wall pretty soon.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:43:35 +0000

I am not sure about the “low margin” business. The AWS offering is using existing infrastructure and is low cost. Even though it represents a small part of the total sales, it was estimated to contribute already 1/3 of Amazon’s profit in 2008! It’s basically retailing HD space and computing power already paid for wholesale price.

Also, compared to the books/CDs and what not, it is a “landlord” business model, collecting monthly fees. More surprising was how Amazon could stick to such a low-margin biz as online physical retail! No wonder they want to push digital retail with and ebook reader to activate the market.

Alibaba/Taobao in China recently announced they were starting cloud / AWS-like services. They totally get the “landlord” approach.

By: Kevin Leversee

Kevin Leversee — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:16:47 +0000

We’ve been using through various projects AWS and can say we are a fan…it makes sense to reach out to the fringe, IBM and Microsoft already have the larger corporations, Amazon must go where the others are not. And hope the platform wins in the end. S3 is fast and cheap.

By: Amelie Relation

Amelie Relation — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:21:15 +0000

I think that is the secret: to have the best developer relations attitude and to be very communicative and a “listener”.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:14:21 +0000

Do we see clouds becoming a price sensitive competitive business? Will economies of scale mean that there will be relatively few hosting providers who will own most of the market in 5 years- as few as 5?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:12:00 +0000

Are public clouds like Amazon and Google the price leaders? I think Amazon has set a standard in terms of commitment to Cloud Computing, as well as price. However, for companies with more than 10,000 CPU Core, a private cloud will usually come in a lot cheaper-perhaps 10 times cheaper. Quite possibly, the crossover point is even lower- 1000 cores. Can UPS or Fedex rent trucks by the hour from someone and still make money? On the other hand, if Fedex trucks can become sedans or SUVs in seconds, will Fedex still want to maintain its own fleet. I personally like the idea of a Eucalyptus based private cloud with cloud bursting to Amazon.

By: Vertical integration as a cloud competitive weapon « Yet Another VC Blog

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