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Amazon has a similar service, although perhaps not as neatly bundled, called EC2.  So with all the talk from Microsoft about cloud services, what are they up to?  Well we did a little digging, and although nothing specific has been announced yet (and we don’t have a timetable), new set of services, part of Ray Ozzie’s four layer platform of services,  is indeed being readied.  One of these, the Microsoft Utility Computing Platform, code named Red Dog, sounds very much like a platform for building a  Google App Engine type service (except maybe quite a bit better).  In a job posting for an SDET, the Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) team has provided us with some of the juicy tidbits we found.  The posting itself is a little dense, written to appeal to seasoned developers looking for new challenges.  But to paraphrase a bit, here’s what the (CIS) team is building with Red Dog:

• an “efficient, virtualized” environment
• a “fully automated service management system” (like the Google App Engine, you won’t have to worry about managing the system)
• on “highly scalable” storage services (you only use the storage you need)
• the service will “scale to millions of machines” across Microsoft’s data centers (geo-located, easy to maintain data centers, remember?)  
• “will lead the marketplace as the best platform for rapid development, deployment, and maintenance of internet services and applications”
• SDK and tools will be included for external and internal customers
• V1 for external customers in the coming year

Source:→ Liveside

Microsoft, Amazon, Cloud Computing, Developer, Google, Ray Ozzie, Windows Live Core, Google App Engine, EC2

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