AWS vies for domination within cloud market
August 17, 2014
Grazed from BitPipe. Author: Nick Huber.
Cloud computing is everywhere in business. Whether a small van-hire business in Burnley needs a few extra servers to power its website or a multinational wants a large data warehouse to analyse millions of customer transactions. The spread of the cloud – large networks of web servers and datacentres that are hosted online rather than on users’ own computers – is in no small part down to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
In just seven years, Amazon Web Services, the services arm of US online retailer Amazon, has become one of the biggest suppliers of cloud computing. It has hundreds of thousands of customers, including Netflix and Instagram, and the Central Intelligence Agency and Unilever. Growth has been rapid. AWS’s revenue was estimated at about $1.5bn in 2012, according to a report by Baird Equity Research….
AWS refuses to say how many people it employs or what its sales figures are – parent company Amazon does not reveal this information – but according to Baird research, as of year-end 2010, Amazon employed 33,700 full-time and part-time employees…
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