Most of my readers probably use Amazon.com more than I do. Until recently, I guess I just haven’t appreciated the advances they’ve made to help advance cloud computing in the consumer space. Here’s a summary of my recent experiences.

What will be the long-term effects of Amazon’s “Big Outage”? Four things come to mind.

Cloud computing is all the rage (and hype). In the past few weeks, many of our readers have sent us feedback asking for some basic information about cloud computing for newbies. We aim to please. So this post familiarizes you with some basic terms and concepts surrounding cloud computing, including cloud models such as public, private, and hybrid clouds, as well as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).

This is the first post in the series “All About Multi-Tenancy.” Here, I plan to share with you many of my thoughts about multi-tenancy that stem from several years of research and practical experience implementing multi-tenant, cloud-based application and platform designs.