Amazon Web Services - Can They Really Solve Your Problems?

I recently attended an interesting overview of Amazon Web Services and thought I would share the 'best bits'... please enjoy... Amazon's AWS offering has now become a huge operation compared to its launch way back in 2006... when I say huge, I mean huge. To give you an idea of scale, the comparable infrastructure and computing power that supported the entire AWS offering back in 2006 is now added each and every day to satisfy ever growing demand. AWS is spread across eight geographic areas, with local edge locations to provide proxy caching nearest to your location. This provides both redundancy, high availability and improved performance. AWS provides a fairly complete set of services to run almost anything you like and practically on a scale that is only really limited by how much you're willing to spend. This gives CIO's and CTO's options to play with but there is still some reticent ab...