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Mat Ellis

Mat Ellis

Father of three, master of tea, ex-Brit, founder @cloudability

My Surprising Cloud Cost Discovery

Once upon a time … There was a little startup. The startup had only about 10 employees and they all sat together in a local incubator. The incubator was kind enough to provide some hosting credits from some friendly cloud vendors,

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AWS Announces Amazon IAM Support

AWS announced yesterday [http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/new-iam-feature-control-activity-to-account-and-usage-pages.html] that they will now allow access to Activity Usage and Billing data via Identity Access and Management (IAM [http://aws.amazon.com/iam/]). This is huge. Based on

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Cloudability joins TechStars

Last September we entered the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) [http://www.piepdx.com/]. It was a great experience and ended with a $1.2M seed round [http://www.cloudability.com/blog/funding-news-and-holiday-cheer/] just before Christmas. While we were meeting with

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Escape Velocity: Accelerating Adoption of the Cloud

Early adopters of virtualization and the Cloud will remember just how [http://loadstorm.com/2008/oh-my-nearly-20-it-leaders-think-cloud-computing-fad] skeptical [http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/10/ellison-cloud-computing-tech-enter-cx_wt_1010oracle.html] folks [http://www.tech-faq.com/why-cloud-computing-may-be-just-a-fad.html] were until recently. There are

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