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We'll be providing a lot more details later.

brryant 12y ago
Would love some throughput and other performance numbers!
click170 12y ago
Fair enough, but one of the biggest reasons I ignore these types of posts is because too often they lack these critical details, they come off as puff pieces to me. IMO these posts would hold value for a larger audience if that info was included in them.
- vacri 12y ago
  It's a upcoming product announcement page from a vendor asking for preview registration, how can it be anything other than a puff piece?
  - jsprogrammer 12y ago
    The trick is, based on the title and other marketing tricks, one doesn't find out it's an actual puff piece until one has already spent time reading at least a portion of the puff. By then, you just feel used.
- antaviana 12y ago
  There's a business side for it. Besides recruiting future customers via a preview, you also sublimilaly put off would-be customers decisions until your solution is ready to compete with existing solutions. Microsoft did it very successfully for years.
chuckcode 12y ago
I can understand that writing up technical details can be difficult as things are constantly improving and also as AWS has to be careful about what they claim. Perhaps a reasonable compromise would be to team up with some 3rd parties to let them try it, optimize a bit with techs from AWS and write up their experiences. Similar to how Apple does the marketing for the iPhone but then lets other people review it. Not perfect but perhaps something that would help the community understand and deploy these technologies better.
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mhuffman 12y ago
I am a huge AWS fan, and user. Look at my accounts for the sums I have spent over the years. I lover new AWS services. But, this is my main complaint with AWS -- don't announce until you have usable numbers and workable examples for early adopters!
- Terretta 12y ago
  On the contrary, the earlier AWS can let you know they're working on a general kind of thing, the better you can plan your own roadmap.
hariramshankar 12y ago
Yea and when is that? If a product is announced, even if its a preview version, shouldn't the details be sorted out by then? This is like a 10000ft view of a product, a great product at that. But numbers to back your claims of scalability and performance would have been best.
stevewilhelm 12y ago
Jeff, does EFS have some kind of "backing store" to S3? EFS -> S3 -> Glacier sounds really interesting.

Would love some throughput and other performance numbers!

Fair enough, but one of the biggest reasons I ignore these types of posts is because too often they lack these critical details, they come off as puff pieces to me. IMO these posts would hold value for a larger audience if that info was included in them.

vacri 12y ago
It's a upcoming product announcement page from a vendor asking for preview registration, how can it be anything other than a puff piece?
- jsprogrammer 12y ago
  The trick is, based on the title and other marketing tricks, one doesn't find out it's an actual puff piece until one has already spent time reading at least a portion of the puff. By then, you just feel used.
antaviana 12y ago
There's a business side for it. Besides recruiting future customers via a preview, you also sublimilaly put off would-be customers decisions until your solution is ready to compete with existing solutions. Microsoft did it very successfully for years.

chuckcode 12y ago

I can understand that writing up technical details can be difficult as things are constantly improving and also as AWS has to be careful about what they claim. Perhaps a reasonable compromise would be to team up with some 3rd parties to let them try it, optimize a bit with techs from AWS and write up their experiences. Similar to how Apple does the marketing for the iPhone but then lets other people review it. Not perfect but perhaps something that would help the community understand and deploy these technologies better.

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mhuffman 12y ago

I am a huge AWS fan, and user. Look at my accounts for the sums I have spent over the years. I lover new AWS services. But, this is my main complaint with AWS -- don't announce until you have usable numbers and workable examples for early adopters!

Terretta 12y ago
On the contrary, the earlier AWS can let you know they're working on a general kind of thing, the better you can plan your own roadmap.

hariramshankar 12y ago

Yea and when is that? If a product is announced, even if its a preview version, shouldn't the details be sorted out by then? This is like a 10000ft view of a product, a great product at that. But numbers to back your claims of scalability and performance would have been best.

stevewilhelm 12y ago

Jeff, does EFS have some kind of "backing store" to S3? EFS -> S3 -> Glacier sounds really interesting.