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December 8, 2006
EC2, Licensing, and Competitive Advantage
I have been working with Amazon Web Services (and EC2) a lot lately, and have made some observations that really fly in the face of conventional wisdom.
I work in ETL, which means I need to get a hold of big iron to crunch on big data. Machines are expensive, licenses are expensive, storage and networks are cheap. This is very different from Amazon's compute farm approach, which changes the economics of the game, especially with respect to software licensing ...
To learn more about EC2, licensing, and competitive advantage and more, take a look at architected.info.
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Posted by Morgan Goeller at 12:30 PM | Comments (1)
