Cloud storage promises a lot of the things that EDA does namely almost unlimited scaling however EDA implemented in the Cloud has significant advantages.
Firstly while Cloud storage Data may scale extremely well , it does so by using masses amounts of caching or disk spindles. In itself this is not an issue but if you have say 1,000,000 users querying/polling a 10 Gig Table While the performance is likely to be good the CPU usage will be massive and this is where cloud computing bites you - in the pocket. And the situations will get worse as data increases.
However EDA implemented in the Cloud immediately gives you a massive reach and can be combined with a Bus like the .Net Services bus to control access and get through firewalls.
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