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• Microsoft licenses the crown jewels to Amazon Web Services
  When Amazon announced RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for Elastic Beanstalk, the response over the next few hours and days was a gushy ‘AWS cosies up to .NET developers’ or something similar. My first thought upon reading the news was “Man, some people on the Azure team must be really, really pissed at [...]
• Cloud sales channels
  When Windows Azure first launched I thought that their well established sales channel and partner network would give them the edge – where loyal partners would sell the next big thing from Redmond, as they have done in the past. A few years down the line and Microsoft has been unable to turn that well-oiled [...]
• AWS leads in PaaS v.Next
  One of the most popular posts on CloudComments is the year old Amazon Web Services is not IaaS, mainly because people search for AWS IaaS and it comes up first. It does illustrate the pervasiveness of the IaaS/PaaS/SaaS taxonomy despite it’s lack of clear and agreed definition — people are, after all, searching for AWS [...]
• Finally, AWS is Cloud Computing is AWS
  The news that AWS is partnering with Eucalyptus to provide some sort of API compatible migration between private clouds and AWS is interesting. But not for the reasons you would expect. Yes, at some level it is interesting that AWS is acknowledging private-public cloud portability. It is also somewhat interesting that Eucalyptus providers now have [...]
• Redundancy doesn’t guarantee availability
  A post Getting Real About Distributed System Reliability by Jay Kreps is an interesting post about the perception that distributed systems (and distributed databases) increase reliability because they are horizontally scalable. The reasoning flaw, he points out is ‘is the assumption that failures are independent’. Failures tend to occur, as is his observatio […]