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[...] One of my favorite quotes came from the My Other Computer is a Data Center sticker story. If Microsoft is now building tools for cloud computing then people will follow. You can also see what Mr. Bezos has to say about AWS here. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:19:41 +0000

Does any public company use AWS?
I wonder how a internet business would explain their reliance on AWS to the street.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:49:53 +0000

Nice blog. I believe the future is Cloud computing.

Sandeep

By: Sandeep Arora

Sandeep Arora — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:47:19 +0000

Nice Posting. I believe Cloud computing is the future.

Sandeep

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links for 2008-06-02 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:33:00 +0000

[...] Bezos Talks Web Services Amazon, as a Web-scale application, had to build cloud computing services anyway to allow course grained communication between app developers and network administrators. (tags: amazon aws ec2 tweet) [...]

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By: Trademanufacturer

Trademanufacturer — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:36:47 +0000

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By: Chip Ramsey

Chip Ramsey — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:21:51 +0000

As a small business owner that uses Amazon Web Services, I have nothing but respect for Jeff Bezos and Amazon. In my opinion, he’s like a humble Steve Jobs. Now, if he could just get Jonathan Ive to help out with the next version of the Kindle…

By: Riser

Riser — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:20:09 +0000

Bogus, you’re right in there with the 20-something-ish wall street kids. – missing the long term point and threat of Amazon in web services. AWS is just the starting point, not the end strategy. They are what I call a “business model-based competitor”. Dell has these same tendencies.

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By: Andrew Vorobyov

Andrew Vorobyov — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:35:00 +0000

God, he laughs so great!

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:16:56 +0000

wtf is wrong with his neck…

By: Humphrey Bogus

Humphrey Bogus — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:18:29 +0000

Wall Street is right to question it. It might be a great service for consumers, but Wall Street is concerned whether AMZN will make any money from it–at a rate that exceeds their cost of capital.

The justification–well, they needed it anyway–is not sufficient. Lots of companies need services that they end up building themselves, sometimes even to world-class levels. But they don’t necessarily turn them into a business unless they make sense as a standalone unit.

For example, Google may have world class IT service, corporate cafeteria, or janitorial system. Microsoft may have the best-manicured lawns in all of tech. Or a world-class recruiting organization. While any of those might be the case, none of them are necessarily good businesses when offered as a service to others.

Amazon has long past reached the point where its web services are used to amortize the fixed costs of servers they use themselves–they are expending capital to build the platform for others use. What Wall Street wants to know is whether this is a profitable (in the economic sense, taking into account the cost of capital deployed) enterprise.

Just ’cause something is cool and the Valley kids like it doesn’t mean it’s a great business (or a business at all).

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:17:56 +0000

@JHC I agree, nothing better.

Ryan
lesson in brevity: http://www.mofata.com

By: Dario

Dario — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:11:23 +0000

Im surprised to hear that wall street analysts dont get it. Not only does it make perfect sense but they have an amazing line-up of services.

Running online video contests you never know when an insane video is going be be uploaded and get massive traffic. With AWS we’re always ready and that is VERY reassuring to our clients. Its also ridiculously cost effective. Anybody running a startup needs to at least consider Amazon.

By: Murshed

Murshed — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:49:58 +0000

@Ronald Lewis

Any specific reason for leaving Media Temple? my site darrb.com is hosted in their cloud and till now their service is fine (except for few instances). Did you leave them for a specific incident or its just a better deal?

By: gregory

gregory — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:39:22 +0000

you see the eyes on that guy? truly and interdimensional being

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:37:55 +0000

Was the camera shot at a weird angle, or does Jeff Bezos always lean his head that way? Needs to see a chiropractor.

By: Ronald Lewis

Ronald Lewis — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:18:09 +0000

Cloud computing is indeed the future. I left Media Temple several months ago for EC2/S3. I couldn’t be happier. Now, my website, PBX and other things are all “in the cloud”.

Also, when I think of “Amazon,” I don’t think of just online shopping. I think of an all-inclusive service provider. The name is “bigger than life” and it truly reflects their latest efforts to diversify their business, which is smart.

Amazon’s approach to cloud computing is the best I know of to date. The little guy can now be the big guy without going broke.

Finally, it’s becoming a promising income generator for indie tech and media consultants like myself. Developers and corporations alike are seeking information about cloud computing at an increasing frequency. It’s exciting stuff.

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:05:46 +0000

Cloud computing is on the rise but it seems like it increases a company’s vulnerability to have its data stored in several geographically distant locations that are out of its direct control. Or do I not “get” it?

By: C. Enrique Ortiz

C. Enrique Ortiz — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:06:33 +0000

Great interview; shows the essence of why JB kicks ass…

ceo

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:22:18 +0000

More cloud computing services are launching everyday. Look for Diomede Storage in a couple months…

By: Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:39:46 +0000

Bezos is a stud. Love the way he handles the “why is a book retailer developing this kind of technology?”

http://ryanagraves.com/blog/

By: Murshed

Murshed — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:02:35 +0000

Cloud computing is (or has been already) the future of hosting. if you already have the capacity, and in some cases, alot of capacity, why not monetizing it and give your customers some access to it? makes sense.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:25:24 +0000

bezos one of smartest man alive