http://www.itwriting.com/blog/577-amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-gets-persistent-storage.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/577-amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-gets-persistent-storage.html/comment-page-1#comment-88110 Simon Wardley Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:50:23 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=577#comment-88110 In my view, the real innovation in GoogleAppEngine is the <a href='http://blog.gardeviance.org/2008/04/run-rabbit-run-rabbit-run-run-run.html' rel="nofollow">open SDK</a> and the possibility that open SDK compliant environments can be <a href='http://blog.gardeviance.org/2008/04/gae-roundup.html' rel="nofollow">re-implemented elsewhere</a> (<i>including on Amazon's web services</i>). The difference between Google and Amazon is that Google has taken the approach of creating an open sourced standard and in effect encouraging competition. Amazon has always been about their <a href='http://blog.gardeviance.org/2007/07/jsops-buy-buy-buy.html' rel="nofollow"><i>"secret sauce"</i></a>. Whilst GAE is at the level of a framework and Amazon is at the level of infrastructure, the approach of an open sourced standard, if adopted, is likely to spread up and down the stack. In my view, the real innovation in GoogleAppEngine is the open SDK and the possibility that open SDK compliant environments can be re-implemented elsewhere (including on Amazon’s web services). The difference between Google and Amazon is that Google has taken the approach of creating an open sourced standard and in effect encouraging competition. Amazon has always been about their “secret sauce”. Whilst GAE is at the level of a framework and Amazon is at the level of infrastructure, the approach of an open sourced standard, if adopted, is likely to spread up and down the stack.

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