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Bye Bye local storage, Hello Amazon S3

June 24th, 2007 No Comments

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, [...]

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Buy a book and some processor cycles

August 24th, 2006 1 Comment

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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