The landscape of computing capabilities within the home has seen a recent shift from persistent desktops to mobile platforms, which has led to the use of the cloud as the primary computing platform implemented by developers today. Cloud computing platforms, such as Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine, are popular for many reasons including their reliable, always on, and robust nature. The capabilities that centralized computing platforms provide are inherent to their implementation, and unmatched by previous platforms (e.g., Desktop applications). Thus, third-party developers have come to rely on cloud computing platforms to provide high quality services to their end-users.
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