Tag Archives: EC2

Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011

Posted on by Randy Bias

Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a fantastic holiday. This is a year end posting that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at … Continue reading

AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy

Posted on by Randy Bias

Most everyone in the blog ecosystem has missed both the point and some of the economics of AWS Dedicated Instances that were recently announced.  Folks like The Register focus on how a single virtual instance can cost $109,324 for a year … Continue reading

Cloud Innovators: Netflix Strategy Reflects Google Philosophy

Posted on by Randy Bias

Welcome to a new interview series we’re trying on at Cloudscaling. This series is meant to highlight not just cloud adoption stories, but stories about how businesses, particularly enterprise businesses, are changing the way they provide Information Technology (IT). As … Continue reading

Rumor Mill: Google EC2 Competitor Coming in 2010?

Posted on by Randy Bias

I’ve heard from a somewhat reliable source that Google is working on their Amazon EC2 competitor. Yes, some kind of on-demand virtual servers. I would have been the last person to guess that Google would take this direction[1], but you … Continue reading