TechYob

Friedman is talking about the Flat World.  Bezos is building it.

Techcrunch lets the cat out the bag today about Amazon’s yet-to-be-released SDS Service - rumoured to stand for “Simple Data Service”.  This coincides with an article I read this morning over breakfast in the Australian Financial Review about Amazon’s web-services-as-a-service venture.  Rob Hof gives an insight into the tech offerings that may well position Amazon as one of the leading players in utility computing.  

Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud and Simple Storage Services just made it easier for kids to start their own Web 2.0 company with some loose pocket change.  Back in the dot-com boom when working for Accenture I remember the massive tier-3 architectures we’d build and deploy for ecommerce companies.   Now I can enter the game for 10 cents an hour for a server computer, and 15c per gigabyte per month for storage. 

This got me thinking back to a comment made to me by one of the respected wags here in Sydney over a couple of Pale Ales

“I can’t afford a million dollar house in Paddington.  But I can rent one!”

Bezos may have some doubters on Wall Street, but Im a believer.