Amazon To Cloud Rivals: Try To Catch Us
May 15, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
Adam Selipsky, VP of marketing and product management at Amazon Web Services, is tired of seeing headlines that announce another competitor has emerged to challenge Amazon. Selipsky won’t name specific competitors, but in a recent interview with InformationWeek, he didn’t hesitate to lay down the gauntlet to them. "Many old guard companies" are now talking about cloud products and cloud services.
These are the same companies that are "threatened by the model we’ve brought to market" of low-cost compute cycles distributed from cloud data centers and charged for by the hour, he said. The old guard might be Oracle and IBM. It might also be Microsoft, which recently announced its Azure revenues had passed the $1 billion mark and said as it offered infrastructure as a service in March that it would match Amazon prices…
Competitors have begun to put pressure on the uniqueness of Amazon’s offerings. Selipsky visited InformationWeek in part to reassert Amazon’s claims to market leadership. Amazon "is keeping up a rapid pace of innovation" by introducing a more complete set of services than competitors, he said. Last year it added Glacier low-cost storage and RedShift data warehousing, as well as new instance types…
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