Last Tuesday (November 4th) MTM and I went to the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Tour at ExCel London in Canary Wharf. The event comprised of presentations from local start-ups on how they used Amazon Web Services to kick start their businesses, a Q&A session with the presenters, and then a Q&A session with Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels and AWS VP Adam Selipsky.
The presentations given were of a high quality and had no qualms about pointing out Amazon Web Services’ failings as well as praising its successes. With the CTO present to answer questions it definitely seemed that Amazon were taking the criticisms on board and wherever possible new services or updates to old ones will answer the users’ pleas. The slides from the presentations are available on Slideshare.
While we have no immediate plans to use Amazon Web Services for Nestoria we believe it is a very powerful set of Services and we will be watching it closely as it develops. We are always scouting for exciting new technologies, especially when scouting means free coffee and food on sticks.
