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Coghead Brings Its Web Application Development Platform to Amazon Web Services

Posted on: Monday, 14 January 2008, 09:00 CST

Coghead today announced it will move its do-it-yourself web application development platform to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). By using Amazon Web Services to host the Coghead system, Coghead will be able to scale rapidly to meet growing user demand then adjust capacity instantly to address peak loads. Along with its move to Amazon Web Services, Coghead is introducing Coghead 2.0 with new functionality that will make it easier for any developer to build applications that leverage Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.

Coghead's use of Amazon Web Services supports the continued expansion of the Coghead web application service. With the release of the next version of the platform, Coghead 2.0 (announced today) is leveraging the same highly reliable, scaleable and cost-effective technology infrastructure that Amazon has spent 12 years and over $2 billion building for its own web-scale operations.

"Amazon Web Services was designed to provide a highly reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure that can scale as a company's needs change," said Steve Rabuchin, Director of Developer Relations for Amazon Web Services. "With Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2, Coghead customers can be confident that their applications will be supported by the same technology infrastructure that Amazon.com uses."

"Our passion is to provide a massively scalable, highly reliable and secure application platform that a broad class of developers can use to efficiently build and deliver web applications that solve specific business problems," said Coghead CEO, Paul McNamara. "With Amazon Web Services, we can take advantage of their unmatched expertise in building high reliability, web-scale applications, and provide the infrastructure we need to rapidly scale the Coghead service to meet the demands of our ever-expanding roster of developers."

Currently, more than 25,000 do-it-yourselfers have registered to use Coghead's online application platform to create business applications and entrepreneurial opportunities. An intuitive, drag-and-drop interface makes it easy and fast to build sophisticated, robust business applications -- from managing sales pipelines to tracking supplies for restaurants -- without any coding. The web-based services are developed and delivered using Coghead's all-in-one platform, resulting in a radical reduction in the time and expense normally required to develop and deliver business applications that scale on-demand.

About Coghead

Coghead provides a radically new way for tech-savvy businesspeople to create, manage, and deploy their own web-based applications. The Coghead service enables the users closest to a business challenge to create customized solutions in hours or days at a fraction of the cost of large packaged applications or custom development projects. Founded in May 2003 and funded by American Capital, El Dorado Ventures, and SAP, Coghead is staffed by industry veterans, serial entrepreneurs, and some of the brightest minds in software. For more information, visit the company's web site at http://www.coghead.com and the company's blog at http://blog.coghead.com/.

Amazon Forward - Looking Statement:

This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, significant amount of indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, and all subsequent filings.

Source: Business Wire

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