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Feb 1 2008   1:12PM GMT

Overheard: Amazon cloud services



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology, Cloud computing, Amazon
jack_schofield.jpg One of the Highlights in the [Q4] earnings statement picked up by the geek press was about Amazon’s online data and storage services:

Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to grow. As an indicator of adoption, bandwidth utilized by these services in fourth quarter 2007 was even greater than bandwidth utilized in the same period by all of Amazon.com’s global websites combined.

Jack Schofield, Amazon delivers financial results, says Kindle is a sell-out

Thanks to Dennis Shiao for the cloud watch tip. It’s interesting that Amazon is using bandwidth as the success metric.

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Dec 17 2007   2:41PM GMT

Overheard: Amazon will put your database in a cloud



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology, Database, Amazon, Cloud
stephen_shankland.gif “Amazon.com has begun publicly testing a third element to its online computing services: a database capability called SimpleDB.

The new Web service joins two others the online retailer launched in 2006 that anyone can pay to use: computing horsepower called the Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and data storage called Simple Storage Service (S3). SimpleDB works in conjunction with those services, letting customers store, modify, and query data.”

Stephen Shankland, Amazon opens testing for in-cloud database

Erick Schonfeld caused a bit of a buzzfire by starting out his blog entry on SimpleDB by saying:

“Companies can now go ahead and fire their expensive database administrators—those engineers who keep the Oracle or IBM databases humming.”

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Nov 26 2007   6:55PM GMT

Overheard: Kindle



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Kindle, e-reader, Amazon
kindle.jpg I’ve tried to narrow down why I think it will fail to once sentence: It solves problems that don’t really exist.

Ed Kohler, Why the Kindle Will Fail with Business Book Readers

At first I agreed with Ed Kohler, but after shopping for books this weekend on Amazon, I’m not so sure. The problem Kindle solves is instant access. With Kindle you can think of a book, order it and start reading it within three minutes. Doesn’t get much better than that.

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