AWS Adds Very Cheap, Very Expensive Support Options: Cloud Computing News « Amazon’s New Service Goes Postal Over Slow Broadband. Insufficient bandwidth has the potential to limit the cloud because it can take a long time to send large files over thin pipes.
Amazon Web Services now addresses this problem with a new data delivery service called AWS Import/Export, which uses the postal system rather than the Internet to deliver data. Yes, it means customers now have the option to send their data to Amazon’s cloud via the mail. Must Cloud Providers Follow Amazon Down the PaaS Path? The short answer to the titular question is no.
A longer answer is maybe, but not anytime soon. Amazon Web Services needed to develop its own flavor of PaaS, the cleverly named Elastic Beanstalk, because, despite big-name enterprise customers such as Netflix and Eli Lilly, AWS still very much focuses on developers. Just look at its recent foray into the mobile world with Android and iOS SDKs and its connection with Amazon.com’s Android app store.