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Sure, currently Amazon is the best Cloud Computing platform. The thing is in 5 years, when the price of the whole current Amazon infrastructure will cost $1000
by EastSmith 18y ago
Sure, currently Amazon is the best Cloud Computing platform.
The thing is in 5 years, when the price of the whole current Amazon infrastructure will cost $10000/month, Amazon will be left with ... lot's of AMI's (apart from original Amazon.com business).
And Google will have list of everyone's attention data, searches, video watching, mails, readers, pictures, news interests just to begin with.
As various GAE applications will gain popularity, those applications will use Google Accounts for authentication, well some of them at least, and 90 percent of your web traffic will go through Google. Now they can start REAL targeting.
- delano 18y agoWhy would Amazon price themselves out of their own business?
- nebula 18y agoFrom what I hear the biggest chunk of cost per GB in a datacenter is already operational costs (most of it salaries). Even though, acquisition cost for infrastructure may drastically come down further, operational costs may not. And AWS still may continue to do business. I agree that having user's data with you is of more strategical value than providing pure platform services for computing and stuff.