Behind AmazonSupply, a nuts-and-bolts service oriented architecture
AmazonSupply has an advantage over B2B e-commerce competitors because it is an SOA-enabled platform-based model, 'with interoperability at the very core of the DNA.'
AmazonSupply has an advantage over B2B e-commerce competitors because it is an SOA-enabled platform-based model, 'with interoperability at the very core of the DNA.'
CSC: 'We like to think of ourselves as the Merlot of cloud.'
For anyone wondering about the economic viability of publicly delivered, platform-as-a-service cloud computing, here's something to ponder: Amazon Web Services is on track to become a $1 billion business within the next three years. Business Insider quotes UBS analyst Brian Pitz, who estimates the annual revenue for AWS at about $500 million this year, growing to $750 million next year.
In a previous post, I marveled at the irony of a bookseller going into the software business (Amazon Web Services), while some IT companies go into the book publishing businesses (IBM Press).Now the bookseller-turned-IT-vendor has teamed up with the IT-vendor-turned-bookseller.
Is Cloud computing a sweet escape or honey trap?
Werner Vogels: "Service orientation works... We never could have built [Amazon's Linux blade server] platform without service orientation."
ZDNet is reporting today that Amazon has filed a patent application for an online marketplace where consumers search and pay for Web services. (Here is a link to the patent application.
A report on ZDNet reveals how Amazon is extending the reach of its Web services to a wider international base, to Canada (Amazon.ca) and France (Amazon.
Amazon has just launched a beta of a new feature of its Web services called Simple Queue Service. SQS is intended to offer "a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for buffering messages between distributed application components.