Op/Ed: Amazon Delivers Infrastructure
Posted by brennels on May 22, 2009
The Amazon — the river, that is — is both impressive in scale and among the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. It’s both fertile ground for innovation and a nexus back to which much of the earth’s evolution can be traced. In the world of science, its significance is vast.
Similarly, its namesake in Seattle — the erstwhile bookseller — has remarkably and unexpectedly emerged as a veritable Amazon to the world of computing. Its public cloud offering — Amazon EC2 — is challenging a lot of thinking these days. In the world of IT, its significance is vast.
What’s most remarkable about Amazon isn’t that it appeared out of nowhere as an infrastructure vendor. What’s most remarkable is that it has done so with impressive competence and grace.
EC2 is a juggernaut, and it seems to get better with each turn.
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