EC2 Google Platform S3 
SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform.
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JUNE 28, 2011
When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. Not Google. Not Microsoft.
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DECEMBER 9, 2010
Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Cloud Data Platform.
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DECEMBER 5, 2010
encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).
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DECEMBER 5, 2010
encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 They looked unstoppable.
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