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Elastic Beanstalk By Amazon Made For Easier App Deployment

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing business of Amazon.com, this morning announced a new offering dubbed AWS Elastic Beanstalk, aimed to simplify the deployment and management of AWS cloud applications developed by third parties.

Elastic Beanstalk is designed to help developers automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and health monitoring.  As part of this AWS still allows full control the underlying resources so that you can switch them up at any time.

There is no extra charge for this service to any of the ASW cloud server customers, they pay only for the AWS resources needed to run their applications.

John Dillon, CEO of Engine Yard, is quoted in the press release thusly:

“We’re working with AWS to provide an Elastic Beanstalk Ruby on Rails container that leverages the optimized Engine Yard stack which has been battle-tested by thousands of high-growth companies.”

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Eli Lilly Cloud Hosting Problems

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Last week reports surfaced indicating that Eli Lilly, a marquee customer of Amazon’s Web Services, had decided against expanding its use of the hosted services after the companies failed to agree on liability terms. Some analysts have concluded that Amazon is essentially unwilling to negotiate contract terms and may not be serious about targeting enterprise customers.

Amazon cloud hosting services (AWS) has declined to comment on the specifics of its contract with Eli Lilly, but said that the pharmaceutical company continues to be a customer of Amazon’s Web Services and that both companies are pleased with their current relationship. Eli Lilly also confirmed that it continues to employ a variety of Amazon Web Services.

In an interview, the head of Amazon’s Web Services said that the company does negotiate contract terms with enterprises and is interested in attracting customers of all sizes. He also said that large companies may need to adjust their expectations when starting to use the cloud.

“We absolutely negotiate enterprise agreements with enterprises who want something more tailored” than the stock customer agreement that Amazon offers on its Web Services sites, said Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web Services.

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How Big is Amazon’s Cloud Computing Business?

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

How big is Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud hosting business? I have been doing a little research about the cloud services giant and here is some of the numbers that I got.

UBS Investment Research analysts Brian Pitz and Brian Fitzgerald released a report which puts revenue numbers of the giant cloud hosting company Amazon’s web services. The duo estimate that in 2010, AWS will generated about $500 million in revenues and will grow this to $750 million by 2011. By 2014, it would bring in close to $2.54 billion in revenues.

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UBS analysts believe believe that the total market for AWS type services will be between $5-to-$6 billion in 2010 and will eventually grow to $15-to-$20 billion in 2014. How do they arrive at these numbers?

  • IDC says the total global cloud market in 2010 will be $22 billion and $55 billion in 2014.
  • IDC says of the total servers and storage account for $5 billion-to-$6 billion in 2010 and $15-to-$20 billion in 2015.
  • Of the twelve AWS product lines, only two (EC2 and S3) compete in this subcategory. AWS essentially ‘rents out’ IT infrastructure to companies that seek to outsource IT needs such as Application Hosting, Web Hosting, High Performance Computing, Storage, E-Commerce, and more. Amazon was one of the first entrants (3Q06), and is a top player in the rapidly growing market. (UBS Research Report)

Can anyone else say that they are a giant in the cloud hosting space.  I sure wish that I was one of the first people to start cloud computing.  I’m still stuck with my 5 dedicated servers all across the US and UK! So question to our readers, do you really think that $2.5 billion dollars is possible in the next 3 years?  Do you think that AWS cloud hosting services can produce that much revenue in the next 3 years?

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