One of my commenter’s Geva’s Scaling Stateful Applications on EC2 on the EC2 Story and Entrepreneurs made some comments about me not mentioning the architecture aspects of building a web application.
He is right, I did only put a paragraph to it
"Somewhere along the way you realise that your application wasn’t built
to deal [...]
Seth Godin (long my hero) in his blog makes a good point about some inept marking from Amazon Web Services EC2 however they are doing some great stuff for the entrepreneur. But he misses the point about what their technical capabilities actually mean for entrepreneurs. Read more in What EC2 means for Entrepreneurs
Yesterday I got asked by a reporter from Businessweek what I thought services like Amazons EC2 meant for Entrepreneurs and startups.
Here are my comments back.
EC2 reduces one of the major costs and growth issues of building an online business that suddenly needs to scale up.
To understand where EC2 and similar products make a huge difference [...]
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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