At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning... Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum . The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups.

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. However, there are some interesting differences in terms of not being able to control proximity of multiple boxes, having a fixed IP address and probably most interesting is the ephemeral nature of the

Amazon Webservices is hosting a The Start-Up Project event in Santa Monica on October 23rd, 2-7pm. Amazon Web Services provides entrepreneurs with the ability to scale their business with access to Amazon's robust infrastructure and technological resources via services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Tags: santa monica amazo Utilizing AWS' solutions, you can compete on ideas -- not resources -- and turn your idea into a profitable business. Amazon Web Services is holding several