Cloud Computing: 2nd Watch Simplifies The Multitude Of AWS Options
July 24, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.
Amazon Web Services is unquestionably a disruptive technology force – prior to them essentially inventing cloud computing, organizations had to acquire and manage their own infrastructure and hence expend significant capital to grow. Since AWS and other cloud vendors popularized their model, infrastructure can be bought just like a utility. Like electricity or telecommunications, computing infrastructure costs can be closely matched to revenue.
One of the criticisms of AWS however, revolves around the fact that they have just so many different product offerings – I’ve never had the patience to count the individual SKUs that AWS offers but the number is massive. That’s great when it comes to choice, but difficult when it comes to getting a good handle on what total solutions might cost…
A new approach from AWS service provider 2nd Watch today aims to change that. 2nd Watch is a company that “assists customers in evaluating the economics of moving IT operations into AWS, designs and builds highly reliable and scalable AWS based enterprise IT platforms, and provides software tools and management services that enable enterprises to deploy, manage and optimize cloud based IT operations infrastructure”…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/07/24/2nd-watch-simplifies-the-multitude-of-aws-options/