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Amazon's Cloud Price Reduction, A Desire To Compete Hard And Move Up The Value Chain

Amazon’s Cloud Price Reduction, A Desire To Compete Hard And Move Up The Value Chain

By Chirag Mehta on April 1, 2014

Recently Google slashed price for their cloud offering. Amazon, as expected, also announced their 42nd price reduction on their cloud offerings since its inception. Today, Microsoft also announced price reduction for their Azure offerings. Unlike many other people I don’t necessarily see the price reduction by Amazon as waging a price war against the competition. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, cloud computing, ec2, google, iaas, microsoft, Price war | 4 Responses

Simple Workflow Service - Amazon Adding One Enterprise Brick At Time

Simple Workflow Service – Amazon Adding One Enterprise Brick At Time

By Chirag Mehta on February 24, 2012

This week Amazon announced a new orchestration service called Simple Workflow Service. I would encourage you to read the announcement on Werner’s blog where he explains the need, rationale, and architecture. The people I spoke to had mixed reactions. One set of people described this as a great idea and were excited that the developers can […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, BPEL, cloud computing, ec2, iaas, orchestration, paas, REST, SOAP, workflow

Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011

Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011

By Randy Bias on January 4, 2012

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. This is a review post that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at five long years of ‘cloud computing’. As many of you long time readers know, I’ve been ‘in […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged 2011, amazon, Asymco, automation, aws, cloud computing, cloud futures series, cloudscaling, commoditization, ec2, gogrid, iaas, openstack, predictions, rightscale, salesforce.com, scaling, vmware, web scale | 9 Responses

Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

By Mark Suster on June 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. Specifically, Amazon has changed our entire industry in profound ways often not attributed strongly enough […]

Posted in Application Software, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Trends & Concepts | Tagged amazon, aws, ec2, facebook, google, IBM, jeff bezos, micro vc, microsoft, open cloud, open source, paas, platform cloud, salesforce.com, superangel, Tech Market Analysis, VC Industry, venture capital | 1 Response

WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free

WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free

By Adron Hall on March 29, 2011

I’ve been wanting to get a write up done for WordPress on AWS, the fact that it is free for a year, since they’ve released the free-tier many months ago. Well I finally got around to it, however it isn’t a write up. I went ahead and put the work in to produce a video […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged amazon, aws, ec2, how-to, linux, PHP, video, Web server, wordpress | 2 Responses

AWS, VPC And Impact On The Ecosystem

AWS, VPC And Impact On The Ecosystem

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 21, 2011

No, this is not yet another post about Amazon’s new VPC announcement. Christian has already done a great job from the technical angle. This is about the chatter that came out from Clouderati immediately after the announcement from Amazon. During Cloud Connect 2011, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels went extra mile to emphasize how ecosystem is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon vpc, aws, Cloudswitch, cohesiveft, ec2, ecosystem, insights, VPC | 2 Responses

Cloud Throw Down: Part 4 – Perspectives on PaaS

Cloud Throw Down: Part 4 – Perspectives on PaaS

By Adron Hall on January 7, 2011

Alright, time for the battle o’ clouds to roll on. In this throw down I’m going to compare platforms from the infrastructure and platform perspective. Windows Azure takes a very distinctive, and unique, Platform as a Service (PaaS) model and Amazon Web Services takes a very Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. Each of these […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, azure, cloud, cloud computing, cloud storage, cloud throw-down, ec2, microsoft, web role, web services, windows azure

Cloud Throw Down: Part 3 – Relational Databases and Instance Prices

Cloud Throw Down: Part 3 – Relational Databases and Instance Prices

By Adron Hall on January 6, 2011

Amazon Web Services Windows Azure Previous Throw Down… Now we’re going to throw down on something that I’ve had more than a few requests for. I’m going to break out and get some charts, graphs, and price differentials on AWS and Windows Azure. This throw down entry is going to be nothing but money, money, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, azure, cloud, cloud computing, cloud throw-down, ec2, virtual, web role, windows azure | 2 Responses

Cloud Throw Down: Part 2 – Deployments and Instance Options

Cloud Throw Down: Part 2 – Deployments and Instance Options

By Adron Hall on January 5, 2011

Amazon Web Services Windows Azure Previous Throw Down… Ok, in this edition the fight gets graphic!  Let’s jump right into the bout.  (I’ve also been thinking about adding Rackspace or another cloud provider in the future.) Deploying .NET Web Application Code into AWS and Windows Azure is done in some distinctly different ways.  There are […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, azure, cloud, cloud computing, ec2, virtual, web role, windows azure | 3 Responses

Cloud Throw Down: Part 1 – Operating Systems & Languages

Cloud Throw Down: Part 1 – Operating Systems & Languages

By Adron Hall on January 4, 2011

Amazon Web Services Windows Azure The clouds available from Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Rackspace and others have a few things in common.  They’re all providing storage, APIs, and other bits around the premise of the cloud.  They all also run on virtualized operating systems.  This blog entry I’m going to focus on some key […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, azure, cloud, cloud computing, ec2, microsoft, virtual, web role, windows azure | 3 Responses

AWS Planning To Add VM Export?

AWS Planning To Add VM Export?

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 23, 2010

Little more than a week back, Amazon Web Services announced a new tool called VM Import, which can be used to import virtual machines into Amazon EC2. It was a pretty good tool which will help organization move their VMware based workloads to Amazon cloud. VM Import lets you bring existing VMware images (VMDK files) […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud computing, ec2, eucalyptus, vendor lock-in, vm export, vm import, vm mobility, vm portability, vmware | 1 Response

Open Source And Cloud Computing: How Bitnami Helps Launch Open Source Apps On EC2 In 2 Minutes

Open Source And Cloud Computing: How Bitnami Helps Launch Open Source Apps On EC2 In 2 Minutes

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 23, 2010

When Amazon announced the release of Amazon Micro Instances, I was excited about how useful it will be for SMBs. Amazon Micro Instances + Open Source software solves one of the problems faced by SMBs. Some pundits outright dismissed the possibility of using Micro Instances for web hosting. Even though I agree that Micro Instances […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, AMI, aws, bitnami, bitrock, ebs, ec2, open source, smb | 6 Responses

Open Source And Cloud Computing: The Amazon Linux AMI Is Now Available

Open Source And Cloud Computing: The Amazon Linux AMI Is Now Available

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 15, 2010

Yesterday, Amazon Web Services announced that they are offering their own Amazon Linux AMI for EC2 customers. This will be available along with the large collection of other AMIs in EC2. The idea behind this AMI is to offer EC2 customers a lean AMI which is highly optimized for EC2 environment. The AMI is available […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, AMI, aws, centos, cloud computing, ec2, linux, Linux AMI, open source, rhel | 2 Responses

Open Source And Cloud Computing: Amazon Micro Instances Can Be Boon To SMBs

Open Source And Cloud Computing: Amazon Micro Instances Can Be Boon To SMBs

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 9, 2010

Earlier today, I wrote about Amazon’s announcement on the availability of the new Micro Instances and their aggressive pricing strategy. The surprising factor for me is their competitive pricing. Their on-demand instance is only 2 cents per hour for Linux and 3 cents per hour for Windows. A 24/7 usage of a Linux Micro Instance […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, analysis, aws, cloud computing, ec2, iaas, infrastructure, Micro instances, open source, oss, roi, smb, tco | 5 Responses

Amazon Micro Instances - Rackspace Has Competition On The Lower End

Amazon Micro Instances – Rackspace Has Competition On The Lower End

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 9, 2010

For a long time Amazon Web Services didn’t bother to focus on the light users. From the beginning, Rackspace offered plans catering to the low end VPS crowd with Linux Cloud Servers with 256 MB RAM available for 1.5 cents a hour (with an estimated monthly cost not including bandwidth consumption at $10.95). It was […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, cloud computing, ec2, iaas, Micro instances, price reduction, rackspace | 3 Responses

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