February 18, 2011 — As Amazon Web Services continues to roll out new features and services for its cloud platform, its competitors increasingly tout better performance as a key point of differentiation, which has me wondering if either approach will clearly win out. The past 24 hours — which had AWS announcing the ability to run static web sites almost entirely from Amazon S3 and Joyent announcing benchmark results that show it outperforming AWS across the board — are a microcosm of this features vs. performance discussion, which has been picking up steam for the better part of a year as cloud benchmark results starting becoming public. Read More
