Host Your Web Site in the Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy

One or two office moves ago, I was able to see Seattle’ s football and baseball stadiums from the window of my seventh-floor office. Built side-by-side during an economic boom, these expensive and high-capacity facilities sit empty for the most part. By my calculations, these buildings see peak usage one percent of the time at most. On average, they’re empty . Hundreds of millions of dollars of capital sit idle. I use this stadium analogy—and have done so many times over the last few years—to help my audiences understand the business value of cloud computing....