Now what Amazon is doing with EC2 and S3 is to fragmentize the Costs part of Web business. Publishesr no longer need to deal with scalability – they pay exactly for what they use. In other words, resources are allocated more efficiently than ever – which was what happened with Google AdSense too, as the below diagram shows.
—Why Amazon’s HaaS (Hardware as a Service) Strategy is a Winner – ReadWriteWeb
AmazonはEC2とS3によって、Webビジネスに必要なコストを、非常に小さな単位に分解した。
もはやスケーラビリティについて、あれこれ考える必要は無くなった。
サーバを使った分だけ、払えばいいんだから。
言い換えれば、かつてないほど効率の良いリソース調達ということ。
[...] See also: analog | Cost Fragmentation [...]
ピンバック by analog | Google’s cloud — 12月 30, 2007 @ 12:39 am