{"id":45,"date":"2011-03-19T22:37:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sasamat.ca\/test\/?p=45"},"modified":"2014-02-10T00:02:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:02:28","slug":"amazon-web-services-rapid-release-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services\u2019 Rapid Release Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Bias at <a href=\"http:\/\/cloudscaling.com\/\">CloudScaling<\/a> has put together some interesting metrics on Amazon&#8217;s release cycle for the EC2 platform. The implication being that Amazon is growing its investment in EC2 at a significant rate to ensure it further enhances its already significant leadership position.<\/p>\n<p>Based on prior years activity, Randy estimates 66 feature releases this year: or more than one per week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sasamat-1.appspot.com\/img\/ec2-releases\/400\" alt=\"EC2 feature release rate\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He has also published the source data in a <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets0.google.com\/pub?key=0Aj44T5bMC9D5dG1QWlRKNmctRk5EcW5mSkhQbEQ5akE&#038;output=html\">Google Doc<\/a> and it makes fascinating reading.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly Amazon want to stay on the crest of the cloud computing wave and they recognize that providing superior functionality is going to be critical to defend against a growing array of competition&#8212;-all of whom are presently tiny in comparison but still have the potential to compete on feature set, particularly in the enterprise IT and public\/private cloud space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Bias at CloudScaling has put together some interesting metrics on Amazon&#8217;s release cycle for the EC2 platform. The implication being that Amazon is growing its investment in EC2 at a significant rate to ensure&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/?p=45\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timwyatt.ca\/test\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}