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So my question is what exactly are you getting for the fees that Amazon will be charging you? Web storage? Music storage? Is there anything more useful. When I think of cloud services, I tend to think of applications that run in the cloud and can expand to handle large numbers of customers. What exactly is Amazon offering in that category?
Those are good questions. All kinds of managers are asking the same thing. When I signed up to AWS I was registered to use many AWS services. These services are building blocks, not solutions that ease the pain of my customers.
Why rent storage, computing, messaging or datasets? Why bother moving your back-end services away from physical machines you own to a bunch of virtual machines controlled by someone else?
Most of us can't see the answer clearly and are making tactical use of public cloud services to see if it is cheaper. No-one trusts a new supplier with large numbers of customers up front. After all, private infrastructure has been around for decades and cloud infrastructure has not.
There are plenty of cloud innovators offering all kinds of solutions - have you actually found any of them to be useful?
What need do you want to fill?
PS. Here are a few links to flesh out what I've put here. I hope these are helpful to you.
AWS introduction - http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/cloud-computing-with-amazon-web-services-part-1-introduction-when-its-smarter-to-rent-than-to-buy/383521?promo=100511&tag=mantle_skin;content
list of AWS services - http://aws.amazon.com/products/
manufacturers and the cloud - http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/what-should-manufacturers-put-in-the-cloud/5026?tag=nl.e101
cloud innovators - http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/50-cloud-innovators-to-watch/4199?tag=content;siu-container
Why rent storage, computing, messaging or datasets? Why bother moving your back-end services away from physical machines you own to a bunch of virtual machines controlled by someone else?
Most of us can't see the answer clearly and are making tactical use of public cloud services to see if it is cheaper. No-one trusts a new supplier with large numbers of customers up front. After all, private infrastructure has been around for decades and cloud infrastructure has not.
There are plenty of cloud innovators offering all kinds of solutions - have you actually found any of them to be useful?
What need do you want to fill?
PS. Here are a few links to flesh out what I've put here. I hope these are helpful to you.
AWS introduction - http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/cloud-computing-with-amazon-web-services-part-1-introduction-when-its-smarter-to-rent-than-to-buy/383521?promo=100511&tag=mantle_skin;content
list of AWS services - http://aws.amazon.com/products/
manufacturers and the cloud - http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/what-should-manufacturers-put-in-the-cloud/5026?tag=nl.e101
cloud innovators - http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/50-cloud-innovators-to-watch/4199?tag=content;siu-container
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