AWS and the Coming Search Price Wars
March 18, 2009
Amazon Web Services is not about search. AWS is about “sucking the air out of the room”. Translating this phrase used by the world’s smartest man (Jeff Bezos) is beyond the addled goose. I think it means buying the market so competitors will die from lack of revenue. You can read an interesting discussion of price changes at AWS here. The article is “AWS “Sucks the Air Out of the Room.” Cuts EC2 Costs by 50%” by Jonathan Siegal. There are some interesting tables, which suggest that moving certain services to the cloud make sense, save money, and minimize the need for expensive in house systems professionals. Mr. Siegal correctly points out that AWS is not for every organization. I agree.
Stephen Arnold, March 17, 2009
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