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Difference between cloud providers

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Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine

I am familiar with Amazon EC2. But how is it different from Azure, AppEngine and SalesForce?

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Let me Google that for you: http://tinyurl.com/33lw5sd

Adam Crossland  2010-10-13 20:35:33
+1 best laugh of the day.
David Makogon  2010-10-13 21:12:06
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Easy: EC2 is like a raw dedicated server, you do all the work. Azure, AppEngine and SalesForce(!) provide more functions at the cost of flexibility.

FrankJK  2010-10-13 20:50:38

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