Apr 06 2011
Amazon Dedicated Instances
I read an interesting news release last week from Amazon Web Services (AWS), but for some reason I forgot to add it here :o
Anyway, the article announced that Amazon will soon allow customers to run their machine instances on dedicated hardware within the cloud. For more information see Amazon VPC Adds Dedicated Instances and Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances.
This is an interesting development, because it moves the machine instances slightly away from the original spirit of the cloud. However, it does enable Amazon to compete with other existing cloud providers who were offering dedicated hardware (unfortunately, I cannot remember their names).
April 6th, 2011 at 22:18
Azure offered this since inception. The idea is to wean companies away from on-site hardware. Rackspace are such a big player in “cloud” services directly because of their large prescence in this market.