[bkeroack]

Every company that runs on AWS is dependent upon SAN (eg, EBS). I imagine it's similar for other cloud services.

Just because you've never seen one or had to deal with one directly does not mean you're not dependent on one.

[moe]

Every company that runs on AWS is dependent upon SAN

I think the discussion was about running your own SAN, i.e. creating your own EBS.

As it happens EBS itself is not backed by a SAN either. According to the rumors it's implemented using either DRBD or GNBD.