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GoDaddy chooses Amazon AWS

by Andrew Allemann — March 28, 2018 Domain Registrars 0 Comments

GoDaddy selects Amazon AWS for cloud.

About a half year after it announced it was planning to move from its own infrastructure to the public cloud, GoDaddy and Amazon announced today that it has selected AWS. The move will offload significant infrastructure to Amazon. Here are my thoughts on this move:

1. Moving to AWS will give GoDaddy instant tech credibility

Many people blame website problems on GoDaddy’s constantly aging infrastructure. Moving to AWS eliminates the need to manage this infrastructure and also gives the company’s hosting plans the credibility of being on the market-leading cloud provider. I often hear people blame GoDaddy and its aging infrastructure for website problems. Once hosting is on AWS, the underlying infrastructure shouldn’t be an issue. (Of course, there’s a management layer on top of it.)

2. GoDaddy was right to abandon its own cloud efforts

GoDaddy has taken two stabs at offering its own cloud services to customers. These efforts did not jive with the company’s stated mission of helping really small businesses. These businesses don’t need an AWS-like service; they need simple hosting and site creation.

3. The deal has reciprocal elements that could help GoDaddy’s core business.

According to the release:

“GoDaddy and AWS are working together to incorporate some of GoDaddy’s domain technology and website building products—Managed WordPress and GoCentral—into the AWS experience to provide AWS customers with an array of tools for quickly finding the perfect domain name and building a powerful online presence.”

Amazon sells everything and already offers domain names through some of its AWS services. Why not also promote domain registration and website building through Amazon? Depending on how this is structured it could be huge for GoDaddy. It could also help the domain name industry.

4. The PR mentions domain appraisals.

I was a bit surprised that the press release mentioned domain name appraisals:

“GoDaddy is also using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P3 Instances—the most powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) instances available in the cloud—to substantially reduce the time it takes to train machine learning models and increase the performance of its GoDaddy Domain Appraisals tool that helps customers understand the value of their domains.”

I wonder if AWS wanted this included to promote its technology for making machine learning faster.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: Domain names tell what Amazon is releasing

by Andrew Allemann — November 28, 2017 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Here are the products, services and programs you should expect to be announced this week.

AWS re:Invent 2017 has started, and the company registered a lot of domain names yesterday and today that suggest the names for new products and services. The company registered domain names prior to the October 2015 event that gave away its product announcements for that week.

I checked these names and some of them have been announced, but others will likely be announced throughout the week.

Amazon AWS Guard Duty – likely a security product but can’t find anything in Google yet
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Amazon AWS App Sync – they released a product in 2014 but there’s probably something new announced this week
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Elemental-based Media AWS Media Services – announced yesterday
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Enterprise Contract for AWS Marketplace
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Amazon AWS ISV Accelerator Program – likely a new program for ISVsamazon
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Amazon AWS Solution Providers Program – the company announced a program by this name in 2009. Getting a reboot?
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Amazon AWS MQ – could this be related to IBM MQ?
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amazonmq.com

Amazon AWS Neptune – Interestingly, there’s a company called Neptune that helps DevOps teams
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Amazon AWS SaaS Factory – A new service for SaaS companies?
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Amazon AWS Serverless Application Repository – Amazon has released tools for this in the past, but something will be new
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Amazon AWS Single Sign On – probably something bigger than its existing SSO for AWS Directory
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Amazon AWS Sumerian – a new VR & AR system announced yesterday
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Amazon AWS Systems Manager – there’s an existing EC2 Systems Manager
amazonawssystemsmanager.com
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Here’s what those Amazon AWS domain name registrations were for

by Andrew Allemann — October 8, 2015 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Amazon’s domain name registrations this week indeed were for AWS announcements, but some are still to come.

On Monday I wrote about Amazon.com’s domain name registrations that foreshadowed services it was likely to announce at this week’s AWS re:Invent conference. Now that the conference is underway, we know what many of these domain names are for.

Monday domain registrations: Click here to continue reading…

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