"What if launching a new business on the web was simple and you could shift your focus to the real business”. "What if you could have a system that could help you manage your growth more easy?" Tuesday morning Dr. Werner Vogels CTO of Amazon presented the new Amazon web services that help you launch and handle your business easier. According to Vogels 70% of time spent in startups is being spent on the “heavy lifting” and only 30% is being spent on creativity.
Amazon recently presented three services:
- Simple Storage Service (S3) that allows clients to store data on its servers paying only 15 cents per gigabyte per month, plus 20 cents for each gigabyte data that is being transferred.
- Simple Queuing Service (SQS) that allows developers to take advantage of Amazon's computing infrastructure to reliably deliver messages between application components.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which enables you to make use of Amazons computing capacity.
Basically it’s all about web scale computing and the importance of getting the infrastructure out of the way, to enable start-ups to concentrate on their unique business, and maybe this is part of the answer. Have a look at: http://aws.amazon.com
A book recommendation made by Vogel worth noting was Getting Real http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ by the Chicago based company called 37Signals. It’s all about how to build a successful web-based application.
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