Cloud Computing: What “unbelievable” new services does Amazon have on tap

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

What sort of amazing cloud services could Amazon have up its sleeve? Werner Vogels ain’t saying anything in detail but here are five things to watch out for where the public cloud services giant is concerned.

Amazon is not known for tipping its hand about what new cloud services it may have planned. so it was no surprise this week when Amazon CTO Werner Vogels teased Structure Europe attendees with promises of new things to come from Amazon Web Services that “you wouldn’t believe.” Pressed for details, Vogels demurred: “I’m not going to tell you. If Steve Jobs can get away with that, I can.” So, if he’s not saying, we’re free to speculate. Here are five things to watch for from Amazon over the next few months…

1: More high-end analytics.

Within hours of Vogels’ appearance, Amazon announced that customers can now run SAP’s glitzy HANA in-memory database on Amazon for $0.99 an hour, plus $2.50 per hour if they want to spring for an extra-large EC2 instance. Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and data transfer fees are extra, which might seem like nickel-and-diming you if you don’t consider that a Hana appliance from Fujitsu can be had for “as little as” $12,000, according to this SAP blog.

This is an example of a third-party letting it’s IP run on Amazon’s marketplace. But also look for Amazon to offer more of its own analytics smarts much the way it’s come up the stack with higher end services like DynamoDB, Simple Workflow Service and Simple Queue Service, said Johan den Haan, CTO with Mendix, a PaaS provider based in Amsterdam…

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