James R Hamilton is an architect on the Microsoft Windows Live Platform team. He maintains an internal blog called Perspectives, with postings focusing on high scale services, data center operations, very large database, flash memory, service design principles, power efficiency and power management. After maintaining the internal blog for a bit more than a year he realized that about 25% of the content is public and could be posted externally. It now is, at http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/.
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I’ve been arguing for several years that the utility computing pricing
model and the ability to near instantly grow or shrink, make the move to the
cloud inevitable. Enterprises normally move slowly to new technologies but
when the price advantage is close to 10x, enterprise decision makers can and
will move more quickly. The weak economy provides yet a stronger push.
Last week, AWS announced new pricing for SimpleDB and it's noteworthy: free
developer usage for 6 months. No charge for up to 1GB of ingres+egress, 25
machine hours, and 1GB storage.
To help you get started with Amazon SimpleDB, we are providing a free usage
tier for at least the next six months. Each month, there is no charge for the
first 25 machine hours, 1 GB of data transfer (in a... (more)
James R Hamilton is an architect on the Microsoft Windows Live Platform team. He maintains an internal blog called Perspectives, with postings focusing on high scale services, data center operations, very large database, flash memory, service design principles, power efficiency and power management. After maintaining the internal blog for a bit more than a year he realized that about 25% of the content is public and could be posted externally. It now is, at 
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