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Why Bringing Cloud Computing to China Is Joyent’s Golden Opportunity This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Sunday, November 1, 2009

Amazon made big cloud news this week, but Joyent's entry into China could have much bigger repercussions.

Much has been made about this week’s Amazon Web Services news, and for good reason. The introduction of Amazon RDS shed light on the growing prevalence of relational databases in the cloud, high-memory instances optimize EC2 for a new breed of workloads (including relational databases), and the 15 percent across-the-board price cut indicates that cloud-computing services are commoditizing, forcing providers to compete on features and price. But as important as these enhancements are, their effects [...]

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