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Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-us-do-that dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "Amazon is pushing hard to be as ubiquitous in the world of cloud computing as it is in bookselling. The company's latest pitch is that even your highest-performing databases will run more efficiently on Amazon Web Services cloud servers than on your own hardware. Farming out your most important and potentially sensitive computing work to one of the most opaque tech companies out there: what could possibly go wrong?"

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  1. Could we can the marketing crap? by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People, "cloud computing" is nothing but a rather thinly veiled mix of software as a service and server hosting, ok? The reason why we needed a new word for it is that the former had a very bad rep by now (and it fully earned that rep), and the latter is anything but edgy and cool anymore.

    Could we, at least here, avoid the whole marketing lingo? It may be "cloudy" to markedroids and management, but I guess we DO know here that the data is not just put "somewhere in the cloud", right?

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  2. Re:FTFY by Wycliffe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Um, actually Amazon tries not to make a profit. I'm not sure they've ever made more than 2% profit in a quarter. Typically, closer to 0%.

    https://www.google.com/finance...

    That's excess profit. That's like saying you didn't make any money last year because you spent it all on a house and a boat.
    Amazon is making plenty of profits. It's just spending them on expanding so it doesn't actually post profits but if you look
    at it's total net worth you can see that it is still growing every year.