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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. 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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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? They are making storage available to people or to institutions who have data they want to share publicly, for free, on S3. Is this similar? Gil Elbaz: Amazon has made public some data sets, which is great.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SoCal CTO

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates.

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