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Could the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform squeeze the profits from SaaS applications?

Could the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform squeeze the profits from SaaS applications?

You need to build a reliable SaaS application from a portfolio of unreliable platform services; the price of which you cannot control. To survive you must ensure you do not lock your application workload into a single utility provider. A workload that you can divide and easily move from one utility to another gives you the believable threat; which you need to build negotiating power with your CPU service providers. …continue reading “Could the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform squeeze the profits from SaaS applications?”