Tag Archives: elastic compute cloud
How Clouds Enable Global Reach
Over a year and a half ago, I mentioned that there were four key aspects to cloud computing: scalability, leverage, speed, and reach. All of these still hold true today. In particular, the one area that was underdeveloped was the … Continue reading
More on Amazon's SAS70 Type II
Amazon hasn’t been forthcoming since my last post on their control and control objectives, which is disappointing, but expected. I still believe that transparency here is more important than security through obscurity. Hiding the controls and control objectives doesn’t provide … Continue reading
On Second Thought…How Big Is AWS Really?
We are trying something new at Cloudscaling and inviting a few of the more interesting cloud computing bloggers to provide some alternative viewpoints. We thought we would start with Andy Schroepfer. His additional analysis of AWS revenue is thoughtful and … Continue reading
Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually
Today I’m going to tell you how much revenue Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is generating. After all, you, my regular readers, come to this blog for its insight, original thinking, and gems of wisdom. Today I have something particularly … Continue reading