Microsoft Windows Azure

Windows Azure is the name of the upcoming cloud-based operating system by Microsoft, announced by Ray Ozzie at the Microsoft PDC on October 27, 2008. It was pre-announced as "Windows Cloud" at a Microsoft Student Technology Day on October 1, 2008 by Steve Ballmer. According to Steve Ballmer, Windows Azure is to be based on Windows Server, with features including geo replication, network management model, and a SOA model.

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competing against Amazon leads to better costs for end users
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allows businesses to focus on their online services and content without worrying about hardware or software
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easy way to cut overhead costs, and scale without need for much notice
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end user cost will not be significantly lower, control will be restricted
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vapourwear - most exciting features are those most likely to be stripped by the end product
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This report was started October 27, 2008 at 9:26 pm by Erik
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

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Pros
  • Turns up-front fixed server costs into lesser variable costs
  • Pay-only for what you use
  • Deploy servers using software - save tons of time
Cons
  • Can be more expensive on the small scale
  • A learning curve to grasping the cloud computing concept
  • Only two 32-bit server options - high-CPU not that powerful
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Google App Engine

Google App Engine

MSRP  $0.00    Released  --
Pros
  • Powered by the same computing power as Google's own apps
  • Free service up to 5 million pageviews
  • Zero startup costs to developing a web app (albeit if you have skills)
Cons
  • Errors will be output if you exceed usage quotas
  • Limited to Python or Java and Google's proprietary database interface
  • Limited to Python for your development language and "Datastore" / "GQL" for your Database interactions
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Amazon S3

Amazon S3

MSRP  --    Released  March, 2006

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage through a simple web services interface. Amazon launched S3, its first publicly-available web service, in the United States in March 2006 and in Europe in November 2007. Pricing United States Storage: $0.15 per...

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Yale

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October 28, 2008
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Pros

  • competing against Amazon leads to better costs for end users
  • allows businesses to focus on their online services and content without worrying about hardware or software
  • easy way to cut overhead costs, and scale without need for much notice

Cons

  • end user cost will not be significantly lower, control will be restricted
  • vapourwear - most exciting features are those most likely to be stripped by the end product

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Erik

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October 28, 2008
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  • competing against Amazon leads to better costs for end users
  • allows businesses to focus on their online services and content without worrying about hardware or software

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Erik prefers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud over Microsoft Windows Azure
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