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el 21-Apr-2008 | The new issue of Wired has a feature article on Amazon Web Services, the online retailer's computing utility. The article gives a sense of how rapidly the utility business, and its underlying infrastructure, is expanding. When AWS launched in earnest a couple of years ago, with the S3 storage utility, Amazon's computer system was at times running at just 10% of its capacity, according to CEO Jeff Bezos. Now, AWS demand has "far exceeded the...
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| AWS outgrows Amazon | | The new issue of Wired has a feature article on Amazon Web Services, the online retailer's computing utility. The article gives a sense of how rapidly the utility business, and its underlying infrastructure, is expanding. When AWS launched in earnest a couple of years ago, with the S3 storage utility, Amazon's computer system was at times running at just 10% of its capacity, according to CEO Jeff [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Amazon's Gold Box Kick Off With Super Cheap SSBB [Deal] | | Amazon deals! No, no, no Amazon Nintendo deals! Today's Amazon Goldbox has kicked off with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, originally priced at US$49.99, but now going for $25.99. Whadda steal. Throughout the day, Amazon will be cutting prices on nine &mdash [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Jun-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Deal Amazon Ds Super Smash Bros. Brawl Wii
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| Amazon Delivering MGS4 One Week Late In UK? [Unconfirmed] | | Generally speaking, Amazon is pretty good about book and game pre-orders, but according to a post over on PlayStation Legion, Amazon UK is going to deliver Metal Gear Solid 4 a week late. Apparently an email was sent out to customers stating that Amazon [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Apr-2008 by Mark Wilson in KonamiMetal Gear Solid 4Mgs4Playstation 3PS3unconfirmed
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| Understanding Amazon Web Services | | There are two ways to look at Amazon.com: as a retailer, and as a software company that runs a retailing application. Both are accurate, and in combination they explain why Amazon, rather than a traditional computer company, has become the most successful early mover in supplying computing as a utility service. For Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-May-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
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