I have been going through a great deal of change over the past 3 months. So while I am in flux I decided to minimize my use of local storage. I have started using Amazon S3 via Jungle Disk on my MacBook Pro. Storage in the cloud is very appealing to me, […]
Bye Bye local storage, Hello Amazon S3
June 24th, 2007 No Comments
Tags: amazon · cloud · JungleDisk · S3
Buy a book and some processor cycles
August 24th, 2006 No Comments
Amazon is now offering Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This goes along with other service offerings. I really like the business strategy statement in the the Amazon 2005 annual report but the service part seems kinda just tacked on:
Our business strategy is to relentlessly focus on customer experience by offering our customers […]
Tags: amazon · ec2 · grid · Technology
Hints of Opportunity
July 21st, 2006 No Comments
Jon Udell writes in A new breed of highly-available serverless applications:
Amazon’s S3/SQS duo is a green field that invites entrepreneurs to think way outside the box.
I have already proposed prototypes that can take advantage of these services. Amazon will not be the only provider of distributed storage or messaging services (see cleversafe). These […]
Tags: amazon · cleversafe · Jon-Udell · S3 · SQS · Technology