socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2013

Pricing on the cloud-based service has not been announced yet, but the release will further bolster the cloud offerings from DreamHost. DreamHost was named one of the "hottest products" by industry publication at the show, and apparently is getting set for general availability of the service this summer.

Cloud Computing 193

Cloud Computing S3 EC2 Web 193

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

The new software connects into Amazon AWS, and its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), SQS (Simple Queue Service), and S3 (Simple Storage Service) to coordinate grid processing. Pricing on the new product was not announced. RightScale said the new software helps companies deploy, monitor, and manage grid processing applications in the cloud.

S3 140

S3 EC2 Product Cloud Computing 140

SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. You may get into the market, but just know that you are going to pay the price when you start to get traction. Several of these are B2B applications with relatively smaller audiences.

Framework 175

Framework Web PHP EC2 175

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Pricing on the new service was not announced by CrowdStrike. The new service also supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The new software is billed, much like AWS, on usage metering.

Orange County 113

Orange County EC2 San Diego Web 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. Traditional VCs have raised larger funds that allow them to pay slightly higher prices and still hit preferred ownership sizes.

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. They knew the venture math that if only 50 companies / year are sold North of $100 million the entry price for their investments mattered. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318