-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Brian Klauss <=-

 AT> There are other CDNs besides Amazon. Some would probably welcome an
 AT> opportunity to serve companies fleeing Amazon.

There's more to AWS than being a CDN.  Something like AWS is a application
hosting system.

For management, they see no server room, no server support staff, no
capital depreciation, etc.  If they need more server power during the 
peak times of the year, it just costs them for the time they need the
extra power.

This is the Elephant In The Room when it comes to cloud computing:
They don't own anything and they are dependant on another company to
keep their web app running.  Management willfully ignores that.

And, really, I don't think any company ever thought that a hosting company
would kick a customer off because the hosting company didn't "like" their
content (as opposed to not paying bills, or the customer doing illegal
things on their hosted application).

 AT> But I think a modest social network can get by without even using a
 AT> CDN. A dedicated server for a bunch of people to rant about politics
 AT> should be able to do the job.

But there's more than a server.  There's the redundantcies to keep the
servers up.  There's the server room.  There's the air conditioning to keep
the servers from overheating.  There's the OS updates that need to be applied.
There's the staff do maintain all this.  And probably more than that.

 AT> But for Amazon, Google, and Apple to banish them from their app stores
 AT> is hitting below the belt.

And that's sending a message to customers: don't trust us.  That message
will make management deal with the Elephant in the Room and rethink their
cloud strategy.  It won't happen fast, but it will happen.


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