Cloud Computing Instrumental in IT Recovery for 2010

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""Watch, too, for Amazon, to develop an application platform.""

What is AWS? AWS provides high level infrastructure like very robust message queues and file volumes that are automatically replicated. Add elastic load balancing, easy to manage EC2s, etc. and you really have much higher level components than just leasing servers.

Will Amazon try to compete with Google Apps? I don't think so.

Others are doing it.. http://www.salesforce.com/platform/ - I suppose it's not unreasonable to assume AWS will provide something similar (but slightly better in some way I'm guessing!)

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