Would Amazon Web Services ever build an on-premise private cloud?
November 24, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Bulter.
Like some of its major competitors, would Amazon Web ever offer an on-premises private cloud management software? AWS Vice President of Marketing Ariel Kelman wouldn’t rule it out – “never say never” he said – but he added that company executives have discussed doing it, but it just doesn’t fit AWS’s business model at this time.
AWS is a services business that operates at massive scale. The company has a market-leading public IaaS platform with a plethora of web services that it updates and adds to all the time. The model of a fast-changing, constantly updating cloud doesn’t work very well in an on-premises private cloud model, Kelman said…
Nor do the economics work well for private clouds, AWS executives argue. AWS Senior Vice President Andy Jassy has preached for years about the advantages of the public cloud; it requires zero upfront cost to start using and is billed in a pay-as-you-go model. Private, on-premises clouds still usually require upfront investment and they will not scale to the massive level that AWS’s public cloud is able to…
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