Cloud Computing: Amazon.com Won’t Rely on E-Commerce Forever
November 19, 2014
Grazed from Nasdaq. Author: Editorial Staff.
If you were to ask anyone what Amazon.com ‘s core business was, I’d wager that 10 out of 10 times the answer would be "e-commerce." That’s undoubtedly true today, but it might not be true forever. It turns out that the company’s Amazon Web Services division, which is currently the No. 1 cloud computing vendor by a healthy margin, could very well become Amazon’s most important business.
It depends on how you define "largest"
To be clear, Amazon will most certainly always be an e-commerce heavyweight; but at a recent media event in Las Vegas, AWS chief Andy Jassy outlined Amazon’s future plans for its cloud computing business. Amazon wants to take over the cloud world…
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