http://disqus.com/by/patransil/enMon, 23 Feb 2009 02:49:06 -0000http://blog.tonybain.com/tony_bain/2009/02/amazon-extends-simpledb.html#comment-6493500<p>Tony,<br>I left Amazon mid 2007 when they decided to move the SimpleDB team<br>from Berkeley up to Seattle. I have been mostly doing turn-arounds at<br>small internet companies in the SF bay area but would love to get back<br>into the web services area again.</p><p>Pat</p>patransilMon, 23 Feb 2009 02:49:06 -0000http://blog.tonybain.com/tony_bain/2009/02/amazon-extends-simpledb.html#comment-6483832<p>I can assure you that Amazon is in this for the long-term. AWS is committed to improving all their services. When I first presented the SimpleDB business plan to Amazon Sr management, Bezos and the team focused on where it could be in 3 to 5 years. As I built the team and we delivered the alpha and beta versions, the product was vetted by Amazon internal groups as well as many external customers and partners. While I am no longer there running the team, Amazon continues to do things right and focus on delivering value to web services users.</p>patransilSun, 22 Feb 2009 14:37:01 -0000