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Hold the phone! Amazon Web Services is launching a mobile applications initiative. According to a pany job post
AWS seeks a sofare development engineer for a new iOS/Android AWS initiative to be based in Palo Alto
Calif.
The ideal candidate will have built a “top 25 app” and want to build a “brand new service from the ground floor”
according to the job post.
It continued: “In this role
you will be responsible for creating and owning world-class production tablet and web client applications across major platforms including iOS and Android . You must be willing to insist on the highest standards for quality
maintainability
and performance. You will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that sofare is designed to be responsive
reliable and maintainable.”
广告还写道：“招聘职位负责开发、控制世界一流的产品——适用于iOS和Android等主流平板电脑和网络客户端应用。应聘者必须愿意坚持最高的质量、可维护性和性能标准，确保遵循工程学最佳实践，确保软件反应迅速、可靠，并具有可维护性。”
TechCrunch first reported the news Sunday night.
Developers typically access AWS from their PCs
but smartphones and tablets are quickly supplanting laptops and PCs as devices of choice for more workers
so it would make sense for AWS to turn more attention to those form factors. And
the pany added Android and iOS support to the AWS management console so users can keep an eye on their services from their device of choice.
Miko Matsumura
SVP of platform marketing for Kii
a Mobile-Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) provider
said this post talks about client app development rather than a sofare development kit so would not be directly petitive with what Kii does. But it is also possible that AWS will build its own MVaaS — something that GigaOM Pro analyst Janakiram MSV posited in a post (subscription required) a few weeks ago. According to MSV:
“AWS has all the required building blocks to expose mobile backend services. Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Amazon DynamoDB
and Amazon RDS already form the backbone of many mobile applications today. The AWS SDK for Android and iOS makes it easy for developers to consume these services.”
General purpose Platforms as a Service (PaaSes) neglected this mobile segment — so startups like Kinvey
Parse
Stackmob
and Kii rushed to fill the void. Now
the bigger PaaS players are adding more mobile capabilities — witness Microsoft’s addition of mobile services to Windows Azure last summer. MBaaS partisans claim it’s too little too late
but others predict a shakeout in this segment.
Sravish Sridhar
CEO of Cambridge
Mass.-based Kinvey
who looked at the ad
said the fact that AWS is looking for front-end developers is not a huge surprise but added that the GigaOM Pro report about AWS moving into mobile backend services was spot on. “If AWS is looking to launch a Backend as a Service offering
they need seasoned front-end developers because
you need to build world-class client-side libraries to abstract the backend stack. For mobile developers
the client-side library is the new API
” he noted.
He also said that it’s a no-brainer for Amazon to add more mobile backend services this since he sees mobile “driving the adoption of cloud in the enterprise. It’s likely that AWS has seen this as well and has realized that it needs to improve its mobile cloud offering to get ‘corporate mobile payloads’ (to paraphrase VMware’s term) to run on AWS.”
I will update this story if and when Amazon responds to requests for ment.