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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. Most likely, a Level 2 platform's apps also call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. I used to recommend that companies only keep their non-core data on S3, I now recommend it whole-heartedly even for mission-critical applications. We raised $16.5

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