Slides of a lightning talk at Cloud camp Helsinki 2010.

2. IAAS clouds as a
commodity
Nov 25 2011
Petri Aukia

3. Commodity

4. Non-commodities

5. Commodity?

7. tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity
• A commodity is a good for which there is
demand, but which is supplied without
qualitative differentiation across a market.
• … price is determined as a function of its market
as a whole.
• goods that formerly carried premium margins
for market participants have become
commodities, … silicon chips.
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8. Spot capacity
Why does Amazon sell a
commodity?
High cost
Long term

9. Others try to get in the action

10. The guys in suits will
take the money from the
server -huggers

11. Thank you