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Please don't spread lies..
I thought it had already been established that you were making assumptions not based on evidence? Bezos made a decision to not negotiate with individual customers, and there are pros and cons to that decision.
Such is life when competing against anything Amazon. Price is feature of their product, just like UI, etc. If they find a way to make it cheaper - they will.
All of this causes people to get the wrong idea about AWS. People aren't attracted to AWS because it is cheap, they are attracted to it for other reasons. When I left Softlayer, the retention specialist I talked to told me that AWS didn't give me free bandwidth, but I told him I wasn't worried about bandwidth costs on AWS because these scaled with my revenue and were a small fraction of it.
All of this causes people to get the wrong idea about AWS. People aren't attracted to AWS because it is cheap, they are attracted to it for other reasons. When I left Softlayer, the retention specialist I talked to told me that AWS didn't give me free bandwidth, but I told him I wasn't worried about bandwidth costs on AWS because these scaled with my revenue and were a small fraction of it.
I tried Windows Azure recently - their cloud storage option to be specific. I was shocked to find out that they did not even have a UI for simple operations like uploading to the bucket etc. Yes, I know they're targeting developers, but I just can't be doing big XML REST requests for every thing. I also couldn't close my account without raising a support request. The point being - Microsoft's biggest headache is catc…
PS. Check out AzCopy for uploading blobs to storage from the command line.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't spread lies..
I thought it had already been established that you were making assumptions not based on evidence? Bezos made a decision to not negotiate with individual customers, and there are pros and cons to that decision.
I tried Windows Azure recently - their cloud storage option to be specific. I was shocked to find out that they did not even have a UI for simple operations like uploading to the bucket etc. Yes, I know they're targeting developers, but I just can't be doing big XML REST requests for every thing. I also couldn't close my account without raising a support request. The point being - Microsoft's biggest headache is catc…
I tried Windows Azure recently - their cloud storage option to be specific. I was shocked to find out that they did not even have a UI for simple operations like uploading to the bucket etc. Yes, I know they're targeting developers, but I just can't be doing big XML REST requests for every thing. I also couldn't close my account without raising a support request. The point being - Microsoft's biggest headache is catc…
Does anyone know if Microsoft's Blob Storage can be used for static web site hosting like Amazon's S3 can be? I'm talking about the full experience that S3 offers. That includes selecting the index page filename, and the DNS support so that naked domains (like example.com) can be used directly instead of having to use a CNAME (like for www.example.com) and some redirection service for the naked domain. Azure's suppor…
All of this causes people to get the wrong idea about AWS. People aren't attracted to AWS because it is cheap, they are attracted to it for other reasons. When I left Softlayer, the retention specialist I talked to told me that AWS didn't give me free bandwidth, but I told him I wasn't worried about bandwidth costs on AWS because these scaled with my revenue and were a small fraction of it.