{"id":5563,"date":"2012-03-07T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2012-03-07T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:07:06","slug":"how-amazon-web-services-dominate-infrastructure-as-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5563-how-amazon-web-services-dominate-infrastructure-as-a-service.html","title":{"rendered":"How Amazon Web Services dominate infrastructure as a service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Mobile World Congress I met with some folk from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twilio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twilio<\/a>, the cloud telephony company, who said something that interested me. Twilio uses Amazon Web Service (AWS) for its infrastructure and told me that essentially there is no choice, AWS is the only cloud provider which can scale on demand quickly and smoothly as required. <\/p>\n<p>Today at QCon London I met a guy from another major cloud-based company, which is also built on Amazon, and I put the same point to him. Not only did he agree, he said that Amazon is increasing its lead over the competition. Amazon is less visible than some, he said, because of its approach to PR. It concentrates on marketing directly to developers rather than chasing press stories or running big advertising campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has also just <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.typepad.com\/aws\/2012\/03\/dropping-prices-again-ec2-rds-emr-and-elasticache.html\" target=\"_blank\">reduced its prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is mixed news for the industry. In general developers I speak to like working with AWS, and its scalability is a huge benefit when, for example, you are entering a new market. You can do so without having to invest in IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, stronger competition would be healthy. My contact said that he reckoned his company could move away from Amazon in 12 weeks or so if necessary, so it is not an absolute lock-in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Mobile World Congress I met with some folk from Twilio, the cloud telephony company, who said something that interested me. Twilio uses Amazon Web Service (AWS) for its infrastructure and told me that essentially there is no choice, AWS is the only cloud provider which can scale on demand quickly and smoothly as required. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5563-how-amazon-web-services-dominate-infrastructure-as-a-service.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Amazon Web Services dominate infrastructure as a service<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,26,80,92],"tags":[139,267],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-cloud-computing","category-development","category-software-development","category-virtualization","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-cloud-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}