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Announcements like this are a huge incentive for large Brazilian firms to get into the cloud hosting space, reminiscent of one large American e-commerce company
by primitivesuave 12y ago
Announcements like this are a huge incentive for large Brazilian firms to get into the cloud hosting space, reminiscent of one large American e-commerce company (whose name happens to be a river of Brazil) entering the cloud hosting market. The prices offered by hosting services here are largely the result of a massive investment, so the first Brazilian firm that can make such an investment can offer competitive prices and learn from the mistakes that firms here made (e.g. AWS dashboard devolving into an enigma of overlapping tools).
In a country that has one of the fastest growing economies of the world, and where the government is publicly wary of American IT companies, affordable and local cloud hosting will certainly happen soon.
- gtirloni 12y agoDo you know a Brazilian company that has the knowhow to face Amazon/Microsoft though? Any time "cloud computing" is mentioned is Brazil it's nothing more than traditional datacenters and virtual machines. Nothing close to the wide range of cloud services that AWS/Azure provides. The Cisco InterCloud initiative might be an option for independent Brazilian datacenters to improve their service and offer something close to AWS/Azure (although much less flexible).
- drivingmenuts 12y ago> Do you know a Brazilian company that has the knowhow to face Amazon/Microsoft though? Doesn't matter if there are contracts or laws forbidding doing business with American entities. Even if they can't compete at first, though, this gives them impetus to learn.
- benologist 12y agoDigital Ocean is pretty encouraging proof that the giants can be beaten, they were only founded 3 years ago and haven't raised much investment.