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by incision 4236 days ago
I'm disappointed that this requires an invite, particularly so close after Container Engine which I was able to try out immediately while still watching Cloud Platform Live the other day.

Is this typical for new AWS offerings?

It makes me wonder if it's something that truly isn't ready for prime time, but is being rushed / forced by the mounting Docker hype and GKE announcement.
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swordwield 4236 days ago
Considering they've been tweeting about it [1] since before their competitors announced things I'd say it's unlikely to be a "response". It's far more likely that Docker has now been out long enough for the various providers to build services around it. AWS already had some docker support built in in April [2]. It's also pretty common to release services as previews. GCE lists theirs as an Alpha quality product.

[1] https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/529493907839533056

[2] http://blog.docker.com/2014/04/aws-elastic-beanstalk-launche...

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bashtoni 4236 days ago
Given that kubernetes (the project behind GCE) was open sourced in early June, I hardly think a tweet from a week and a half ago shows it's not a response to Google.
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gruvector 4236 days ago
He also mentions the elastic beanstalk support for Docker from April. It's quite obvious that everyone has been working on Docker support for a while now anyway.
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jakozaur 4236 days ago
It's fairly typical. Though I usually get preview to any service reasonable fast just by clicking on their website.

E.g. Amazon Kinesis:

Preview 14 Nov 2013: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-real-time-pro...

Got access less than week from that.

GA 16 Dec 2013: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/16/amazon-...

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joshpadnick 4235 days ago
According to one of the AWS devs, they plan to start honoring invite requests in about 2 - 4 weeks. It appears to be in preview right now mostly b/c the loose ends aren't tied up yet. For example, in their demo today, they launched EC2 instances in a cluster using an AMI that's specially enabled for the EC2 Container Service but which is not yet publicly available.
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