5 numbers that illustrate the mind-bending size of Amazon’s cloud
December 4, 2014
Grazed from BizNews. Author: Jack Clark.
Amazon.com’s cloud is so vast and complex that it basically operates the largest computer on the planet. At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, the company introduced a bunch of new stuff to make Amazon Web Services a more attractive option for businesses looking to build software in the cloud. “It’s very much analogous to a huge, general-purpose computer,” said Josh Stella, who used to work in Amazon’s Web Services group before leaving to start Luminal, a company that makes server-management software for gear rented from clouds such as Amazon’s.
For someone just scrolling through Pinterest or surfing television shows on Netflix — both AWS customers — it’s difficult to grok the sheer size of Amazon’s network of servers. Here are five numbers, culled from this week’s event, that express just how large and strange Amazon’s cloud is…
1 Million Customers
Amazon now has more than a million people using its cloud services, Andy Jassy, the company’s senior vice president, said during a speech today. When contacted for comment, Microsoft and Google declined to disclose customer numbers for their rival clouds. Amazon dominates the cloud-infrastructure industry, so it’s safe to assume the competition is less than a million apiece…
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