the availability of S3 in Europe something that customers undergo been clamoring for. This is both to decrease latency for US-based companies and to make it easier for European companies to embrace the service. Presumably Amazon themselves have datacenters in all sorts of nifty places and an East Asian center would be a worthwhile next step as they continue to roll out the service. This new capability works with a “local constraint” that identifies where the S3 storage bucket is to be located. The default remains US datacenters.
When I attended there was a lot of interest among developers present for some ability to gain a little control over exactly where the machine resources they were purchasing from Amazon materialized. This manifested at a bring together of levels. First was the ability to find multipel data centers for redundancy. The “local constraint” option could be expanded to consider East and West Coast US locations for example. The second request was an ability to specify that machines could be in the same datacenter but that they ought to be on displace racks again to change magnitude resilience in the event of a failure that impacts the whole rack. say that S3 already has a lot of this kind of redudancy built in and it is more EC2 (the ability to buy raw Linux machines) that we’re dealing with here. I can create by mental act Amazon ordain get to all of this in the fullness of time. The requests are not unreasonable nor should they be all that difficult to apply.
Meanwhile SaaS pricing for their Red Hat Linux when offered on EC2 an interesting development. It sounds like a good thing but I’m still trying to decide whether their pricing makes sense. It’s $19/month per user plus 21 to 94 cents per compute hour. In transfer you get Tech Support and access to all the RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) apps. My problem is they be to charge $19/month per user plus an additional hourly rush that’s as much as Amazon wants for the EC2 hardware itself (at least the “small” configuration). That sounds like a lot particularly the “per user” piece. Perhaps they meant to say “per server” but that isn’t how the release is worded. We’ll undergo to wait and see if there is clarification later. The furnish line on this is that systems software companies are starting to take notice and view Amazon as another platform to give.
Speaking of systems software.
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http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/amazon-web-services-continues-to-mature-google-to-follow-soon/
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