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By: Andrew Fogg

Andrew Fogg — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:58:12 +0000

It would surprise me too if Amazon’s biggest customers are big customers. The economics makes sense for customers large and small, and I hope that it is true but awareness of AWS is quite low amongst the companies we work with. It would be nice to have this story verified somehow. Thanks for the post.

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By: rodica

rodica — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:01:13 +0000

Something to note is that basecamp, a fairly widely used collaboration portal seems to also be using aws to serve its clients + client projects with file hosting. Very smart move…

By: Rod Boothby

Rod Boothby — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:20:55 +0000

We are seeing the exact same trend at Joyent. More and more large companies are starting to use Joyent’s Cloud Computing services.

Joyent has over 10,000 customers, and our revenues are growing at over 550% a year. At least half that revenue comes from larger companies, and not start-ups.

These Fortune 1000 companies are setting up Light Engineering Departments. For CIOs, Joyent gives them the best of both worlds. Their employees can experiment and increase the velocity of innovation within their organization with out putting their mission critical legacy infrastructure at risk.

CIOs particularly like Joyent because our stack is completely open. Thus, CIOs do not have to worry about having to re-write an application if they want to bring it back in house.

You might be interested in a post on Joyent’s site about Light Engeering and Cloud Computing. http://www.joyeur.com/2008/03/10/light-engineering

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:33:19 +0000

Look for Diomede Storage to launch later this year and be a game changing alternative to S3.

By: Ronald Lewis

Ronald Lewis — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:29:27 +0000

Amazon has struck gold with AWS. I think it’s one of the best examples of utility computing today, hence the large number of corporate users. I would guess that the conversion rate for those testing the service is quite high.

I use EC2 and S3 to host my blog and several other domains. It has become the “platform of choice” for all future web projects for myself and clients. I couldn’t be happier with the service and while I’m paying $60 more on average per month (compared to the $20 I spent at Media Temple), I believe I’m getting far more value and capability for the money.

You can’t help but to be giddy about the service and all it has to offer.

By: Philip Jacob

Philip Jacob — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:04:58 +0000

Actually, I can offer one counterexample to this. StyleFeeder definitely qualifies as a startup and we’re also one of the largest users of Amazon’s SQS service, something we discovered out recently when one of their product managers reached out to us to ask if we had any input for the future direction of the product.

We really love love Amazon’s webservices - they’ve been truly super for us.

And, @Duncan, yes, you can serve a website directly off of S3, but only if it’s static content. There’s no ability to execute code there. For that, you could use EC2 now that they have elastic IP addresses that you can assign to your instances.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:31 +0000

I’m not sure it’s appropriate to ask a question in this forum but I hope so.

I have a question to someone whom knows the technical side of S3.

Is it possible to use the S3 as your one and only server?

We are two guys from Denmark putting together this new video site (different from all other of cause) :-). So we have a need to host our videos somewhere and we were thinking of using the S3 as our server, if that is possible.

We are planning to include a developer later on (whom knows this “stuff”), but until then it would be nice for us to know if it’s possible or not? If not what is recommendable for a video site with “on demand videos” ?

Thanks!
Duncan.
Duncan_dk@yahoo.com

By: Mohamoud

Mohamoud — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:32:18 +0000

Excellent Post! I am using Amazon for a new project and is working beautifully.

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:57:17 +0000

There are definitely some large customers using AWS, but they tend to be quiet and they are unlikely to have signed-up anonymously using their credit card. They probably also already had a business relationship with Amazon before AWS… While these companies may be using a big chunk of cpu-hours and gigabyte-hours from AWS today, I’m not sure they will build the momentum behind cloud computing. It seems so much more likely that the real momentum will be built through the startups that run several thousand servers when they become successful. At RightScale (http://www.rightscale.com) we’re helping one of those at the moment and I can’t imagine doing it on any platform other than EC2! That’s where the press is and what inspires the forward-looking CIOs of larger corps to try it out as well in a public manner.

By: Cody

Cody — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:24:31 +0000

We just launched a social network (http://sportsnation.espn.go.com/slimc9999) and widget directory (http://widgetcenter.espn.go.com) on AWS, so i can believe other large companies are examining it.

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:20:54 +0000

This is very cool info. I still would not rely 100% in Amazon, read my blog post below, but my argument is becoming increasingly harder to support.

http://www.fabianschonholz.com.....-solution/

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By: Mark Atwood

Mark Atwood — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:38:37 +0000

This is not a big surprise to me. Last year sometime, at some random geeky event, I was explaining why I thought AWS was so cool, and one of the people I was explaining it to worked for a local insurance company, and he got very excited. Apparently, at this company, they would have huge stacks of compute servers that would lie fallow 28 days out of the month, but when it came time to run the monthly math to recalculate various risk reward calculations, they would max out their capacity, and were constantly begging for more. They would very happily pay a premium to have those compute instances on-demand, by-the-drink, and not have to pay for them the rest of the month.

I wouldnt be surprised if they are now one of those AWS customers.

By: Brig

Brig — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:34:56 +0000

I agree with other comments — great post, and very timely. yeah, cloud computing could level the playing field and allow startups to scale more easily. but it’s also all about not having to go pray to the altar of IT & network guys whenever you want to try a new project.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:01:42 +0000

There are plenty of players in this space such as Nirvanix , the cloud is becoming a major factor in todays IT decisions

By: nobosh.com

nobosh.com — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:49:29 +0000

Great post. That should lead to the financial stability of Amazon’s Web Service product.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:37:23 +0000

I agree with post 2… if more ‘big’ clients are in need of more power, they will ‘up’ there services for the little guys as well

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By: Peter Antypas

Peter Antypas — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:00:34 +0000

This is surprising indeed. Thanks for the insight. It’s …. priceless