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.

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is more than just a new product from Amazon.com. It’s validation that raw IaaS is too complex for the average development shop and that PaaS is the inevitable web app model for the future.

I recently contributed to a short article over at CIO titled 5 Things You Need to Know about Platform as a Service. The article quotes yours truly as stating that scalability is not guaranteed when you move to the cloud. The article quotes me as saying “That’s one of the great myths—that as soon as you go to the cloud, you scale.” Because all of my thoughts were not included in this article, I’ll expand [...]

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.