SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. All about end-user requests. Not for batch processing.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

.&# They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). SimpleGeo is designed with the idea that startups can create new mobile products without having to each build their own mapping functionality.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318