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By: Allie

Allie — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:38:24 +0000

I am surprised there are banks using the system. They are required to use only certificate sas70 hosting companies. As far as I know Amazon is still in the process of getting certificate. I hope that have it because we have alot of banks wanting to use this solution but are waiting for certification.

By: John

John — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:30:57 +0000

I’m working on a team that is consulting one of the *largest* retailers in the US on ecommerce solutions, and they’re leaning towards Amazon for ecommerce + fulfillment services…this could be big.

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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.joye...ght-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://sportsna...o.com/slimc9999) and widget directory (http://widgetce...ter.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.fabi...ybrid-solution/

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