{"id":3344,"date":"2012-08-28T14:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=11953"},"modified":"2012-08-28T14:10:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:10:50","slug":"amazon-just-gets-cheaper-and-cheaper-and-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amazon-just-gets-cheaper-and-cheaper-and-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon \u201cjust gets cheaper, and cheaper, and cheaper\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Good article in the New York Times on the effect of AWS on startup access to major computing resources. Great takeaway quote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cI have 10 engineers, but without A.W.S. I guarantee I\u2019d need 60,\u201d said Daniel Gross, Cue\u2019s 20-year-old co-founder. \u201cIt just gets cheaper, and cheaper, and cheaper.\u201d He figures Cue spends something under $100,000 a month with Amazon but would spend \u201cprobably $2 million to do it ourselves, without the speed and flexibility.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>He conceded that \u201cI don\u2019t even know what the ballpark number for a server is \u2014 for me, <strong>it would be like knowing what the price of a sword is.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/28\/technology\/active-in-cloud-amazon-reshapes-computing.html\">full article.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=5fd4803e-ecae-4ca1-9364-f47bd70ec5d1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nkO9FkDA_2diLGsYs0_CuYNl-4w\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nkO9FkDA_2diLGsYs0_CuYNl-4w\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nkO9FkDA_2diLGsYs0_CuYNl-4w\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nkO9FkDA_2diLGsYs0_CuYNl-4w\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/xFTkyztCiZQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good article in the New York Times on the effect of AWS on startup access to major computing resources. Great takeaway quote: \u201cI have 10 engineers, but without A.W.S. I guarantee I\u2019d need 60,\u201d said Daniel Gross, Cue\u2019s 20-year-old co-founder. \u201cIt just gets cheaper, and cheaper, and cheaper.\u201d He figures Cue spends something under $100,000 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[619,136,620,617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-amazon-aws","category-amazon-com","category-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}