Amazon looks to expand cloud service
January 1, 2013
Grazed from The Calgary Herald. Author: Editorial Staff.
Amazon has announced major expansion plans beyond its traditional retail operations that could see it competing with technology giants Google and Apple. Amazon believes its cloud computing operation could end up dwarfing other parts of its business, a senior executive with the company has told The Sunday Telegraph.
Andy Jassy, head of the Amazon Web Services division, said the unit was growing so rapidly that it could end up catapulting Amazon past its rival Apple to become the largest technology business in the world…
“At the highest levels of this company, we believe that it’s quite possible that AWS ends up being the largest business in Amazon. We believe [that] passionately,” he said. “We don’t say to ourselves, ‘What we’re really doing is trying to build the largest technology company in the world.’ “We just happen to think … [it] has the chance to be the largest technology company.”…
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