Amazon Web Services eyes the desktop next
April 16, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Colin Barker.
According to Wikipedia, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is "a collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the internet" which in the simplest of terms is exactly what it is. However, another way to describe AWS is as one of the fastest growing parts of one of the fastest growing businesses around. Formed just eight years ago in 2006, AWS began as 24 separate entities – divisions or product-specific working groups.
Since 2004 the number and size of these separate entities has grown considerably and in 2013 Amazon added 280 separate units, making a grand total of 654. In the first two months of this year it has added another 57. Look at any org chart for AWS and it is complex – one from January this year shows 39 distinct divisions…
Such breakneck growth brings with it, its own problems. One is that people see it as being a three pronged supplier in the businesses of computing, networking and storage products. This a simple and as good a way of understanding the company as any other but people who work for Amazon tend to take a lightly different view of it…
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