The Secret to IaaS Success? Don’t Beat Amazon Web Services
May 4, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: David Linthicum.
As reported By GigaOM’s Jordan Novet, AWS did some chest beating at the AWS Summit held in San Francisco last week. The message: Microsoft has no chance to beat AWS in the race for IaaS dominance. This could be a valid point.
“Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy didn’t refer to any competitor by name when he pointed out AWS’ advantages before a crowd of around 4,000 at the AWS Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday. But it’s not hard to take a guess on who he was talking about. With Microsoft hyping its Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Amazon is trying to persuade people — Amazon faithful or not — that Azure just doesn’t compare…
Amazon launched AWS in 2006, and I would say they had the idea and initial prototypes well before then. While others were working on SaaS as the first generation of cloud systems, AWS saw storage and compute services as the path to value in public cloud computing offerings. Since then, Amazon’s S3 offering have grown to encompass 2 trillion objects stored, and continues to prove the many initial naysayers incorrect as they grow revenue well past $2 billion dollars…
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