This is really a powerful product, and it shows the wisdom and work in Amazon's product/market research. Outside of the world of startups and young companies w

This is really a powerful product, and it shows the wisdom and work in Amazon's product/market research. Outside of the world of startups and young companies who "grew up" in the world of cloud-based solutions, there is a large ecosystem of more traditional enterprises who still have a lot on-premise computing. These companies have a lot of lock in: Racks of physical on-site servers, Sharepoint-based access control, custom hardware and clusters for everything from large file storage to compliance metadata, and custom software built around this infrastructure. Of those, one of the biggest lock-in dependencies I've seen is NFS. Not just because NFS one of the oldest protocols, but because of the nature of the NFS abstraction. Fundamentally, software that assumes a filesystem is shared, globally mounted, and read/write is very hard to adapt to a cloud solution. Many times, it requires re-writing the software, or coming up with a NFS shim (such as a FUSE solution) that is so underperforming it blocks usage. If AWS implements this correctly, this could provide the cost/performance balance to potentially move such a solution completely to AWS. This would eliminate not just large amounts of physical overhead for these companies, but the productivity costs that come with the downtime that inevitably occurs when you don't have good redundancy. These companies (and the industries they comprise) are trying to find out how best to leverage Amazon. Recently, even more conservative industries, such as Law, are becoming more aware of AWS and other cloud-based solutions. Lets hope that solutions like this, that bridge the old with the new, can empower that transition so we can all feel better about how our software is managed.