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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. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance.

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

Both Sides of the Table

During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. From a reliability & performance perspective for most applications it will perform beautifully. Processing.

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