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 Send to email | Understanding Amazon Web Services in General |  By Rough Ty
el 31-May-2008 | 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 isn't for, say, IBM, Sun, or HP....
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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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| 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 on board with Myspace Music? |  Seems like an unlikely pairing, but rumors are now circulating that Amazon is now bidding to provide online retail services in conjunction with Myspace Music. Myspace announced their music service earlier this year, with plans to provide music from Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner. They plan to offer both ad-supported free streaming as well as [...]
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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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| Feargal Sharkey on the music-ISP MoU | | Three Strikes RIP?
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISPs and the music business will lead to radically new “legal P2P” services, British Music Rights’ Feargal Sharkey told us this morning. Licensing deals have already been signed, we reported recently.
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| Amazon rolls out streaming Video On Demand store | | Although it’s still in beta (read: bugs galore), we’re pretty excited about the new Amazon Video On Demand streaming media store. Launched this morning, the service provides customers access to a wide collection of content, boasting over 40,000 titles with plans to expand even further in the coming months. Unlike services like iTunes that download [...]
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| Amazon rolls out streaming Video On Demand store | | Although it’s still in beta (read: bugs galore), we’re pretty excited about the new Amazon Video On Demand streaming media store. Launched this morning, the service provides customers access to a wide collection of content, boasting over 40,000 titles with plans to expand even further in the coming months. Unlike services like iTunes that download [...]
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