Amazon's next billion-dollar business eyed

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/us-amazon-preview-idUSTRE76L39120110722?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&dlvrit=56505

by vipivip • 15 years ago

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zeit_geist• 15 years ago

How I could I miss AWS for so long?! ;p

nolite• 15 years ago

Well, its because it was a "secretive unit"

diolpah• 15 years ago

I literally laughed out loud at this particular example of journalistic cluelessness. Haven't done that since, well, the Louise Boat.

jamesbkel• 15 years ago

As much as I want to laugh (and maybe even cry) at this, it does bring up a good point. Not so much in the content, but the fact that it exists in the first place.

I imagine that for almost everyone on HN the "revelation" of this article is comically obvious. However, I have had countless clients who were interested in testing the waters for hosting or HPC work and were committed to sinking a lot of cash into in-house machines up front. I almost always suggest experimenting with AWS and then moving on from there. More than 1/2 of the time I get a bug-eyed look, not because they are skeptical of AWS, they just have no idea what it is.

rdl• 15 years ago

It seems pretty likely that AWS on its own would be worth >$1b right now. Probably $5-10b in the current market, just based on adoption.

It's pretty weak for enterprise/internal/corp use, vs. web startup, but I could see them expanding over time.

Amazon's next billion-dollar business eyed

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