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.

Please join me at IEEE Cloud 2011, July 4-9, Washington, DC. At the show, I’ll be giving two sessions that might be of interest. Cloud 2011 Summer School On Monday, July 4, at the “Cloud 2011 Summer School”, I’ll be presenting the “Cloud Development and Deployment” tutorial. Designed for developers by developers, this workshop mixes presentations with hands-on coding exercises that teach you how to build a cloud app using the world’s premier cloud platform, [...]

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

CA’s ERwin supports cloud databases.

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’ve often thought to myself that when I move a serious database to the cloud, how would I monitor its performance and such. Sounds simple, right — just use whatever I’d use on-premise. Not so fast …

Database.com’s, announced in December, is a proven cloud database service that powers everything in the salesforce.com stack. See what all the buzz is about.

If you are into cloud app development and will be anywhere near San Francisco on December 6, 2010, you don’t want to miss a radically new, and FREE, cloud-agnostic event that is sure to have something for everyone: Cloudstock.

I recently wrote a white paper for the folks over at Salesforce.com and was extremely impressed at how focused and dedicated their entire staff is with respect to security and privacy controls for the Force.com cloud application platform.

The session explained how and why Ruby on Rails (RoR) Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings such as Engine Yard are becoming formidable competition to perhaps more well-known PaaS options such as Force.com, Google App Engine, and Microsoft Azure.