June 5th, 2008 near Maryville, Missouri by Shane Kirk
In case you didn’t see it, Amazon had a huge EC2 announcement the other day that included:
But the really cool bits, if you ask me, are the announcements about the next wave of related services:
As frequent readers of my blog and/or conference talks will know, this means one of the last important building blocks to creating fully cloud-hosted applications *at scale* is nearly ready for primetime.
For those keeping score at home, my personal checklist shows that the only thing now missing is a truly scalable, truly bottomless database-like data store. Neither Elastic Block Storage (EBS) nor SimpleDB really solve the entire scope of the problem, though they’re great building blocks that do solve big pieces (or everything, at smaller scale). I’m positive that someone (Amazon or other) will solve this problem and I can start moving more stuff “to the Cloud”.
I can’t wait.
UFO OR CLOUD? by Shane Kirk
Microsoft is announcing some exciting Cloud Computing stuff today at their Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Assuming it’s the same stuff (and more?) I’ve been briefed on over the last year, it’s pretty exciting stuff.
I’ll be live-tweeting the best bits over on my Twitter account. If this stuff is interesting to you, come check it out.
