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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on. My bet is that they fold A9 (their search tool) into AWS and offer search-as-a-service, too. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

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

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To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. They have built tools to store the data but also to allow 3rd-party developers to rapidly consume or even write data to their tables.

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