As we all know we are entering into cloud era where to build an application like Youtube, mySpaces, etc an individual does not have to worry about massive infrastructure to serve millions of user requests, data centers, database space, memory, scalability and moreover administration and maintenance of such a big infrastructure. Amazon, Google and Microsoft have provided us these infrastructure for minimal cost and with application platform to build such big applications.
Amazon is in cloud business for quite long time with its Amazon Web Services, S3 (Simple Storage Service), EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and SQS (Simple Queue Service) services, Google have provided this platform few moths back with its GAE (Google App Engine) and BigTable for Data Storage and now Microsoft came up with its Windows Azure, Live Services, .Net Services, SQL Services, Dynamics CRM Services, etc. Now an individual or small firms can easily access world level ground to compete with old big giants. Good thing is that Google and Microsoft have provided these services initially free to a certain limit so any one can start building such application right now without any constraint.
Below is an article explaining the advantage of cloud war to Asian software firms and individuals.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62048490,00.htm
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