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In the next few days we'll see comparisons from all the external EC2 portal efforts, forced now to highlight only their 'value add'. It's always interesting to
by timf 18y ago
In the next few days we'll see comparisons from all the external EC2 portal efforts, forced now to highlight only their 'value add'.
It's always interesting to see where AWS is willing to step on the toes of all of the 3rd parties building enabling tools. And who they let in to their private betas (with EBS, some people were publicly feeling dissed).
- DenisM 18y agoI think it's the same story as with any other platform vendor for - no partner is absolutely safe from incursion. The ones that survive are the ones that have large, loyal customer base (e.g. Quicken) or can move very fast.
- wmf 18y agoLook at it the other way: What if Amazon was planning a Web console all along? Should they give up because someone beat them to it? If a third party implements a feature (persistent storage, load balancing, HA, auto-scaling), should Amazon be blocked from building that feature?
- timf 18y agoI agree, it's not indecent of them or anything (unless maybe they outright lied to someone about it; it's very hard to speculate about these things from the outside anyhow).