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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Amazon Introduces Inelastic Cloud

Monday, March 16, 2009

Amazon announced a new pricing structure for EC2 last Thursday based on “reserved instances”, the ability for a customer to pay an up-front fee that will set aside a Linux/Unix AWS instance (Windows reserved instances not yet available) for 1 or 3 years.  In return for the one-time fee, reserved instances carry a per-hour price [...]

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The Elephant in the Computer Room

Thursday, March 5, 2009

I was sitting next to Jay Fry in Las Vegas (not at the tables, honest), listening to Tom Bittman’s keynote opening the Gartner Data Center Conference in December, when Tom said “[according to Gartner's analysis], if you fully utilize your own equipment, Amazon [EC2] will cost you twice as much.”  Jay kept on furiously taking [...]

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