Mr. Bezos Goes To Washington

theodp writes "TechFlash takes a look at Amazon's evolving government cloud strategy, reporting that the company is quietly building an operation in the D.C. area ('Amazon Government Solutions') as it aims to become a key technology provider to federal and state governments and the US military. According to Input, the federal government market for cloud services is projected to grow to $800 million by 2013, and the state and local cloud market is expected to reach $635 million by that year."

Comments

So... What happens when they outsource to China?

[Colin Smith]

It's all just a cloud, and it'd be cheaper to host the servers and development teams in China.
 

Marketing

[truthsearch]

Cloud market? They really mean VPS market. 'Cause that's all these "cloud computers" are today, quickly instantiated virtual private servers.

No service yet gives you the single endlessly expandable and distributed server instance. You still set up small servers and implement your own distributed application model, no different then buying multiple pieces of hardware. So far the "cloud" is all marketing.