About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered inSeattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the internet sales revenue of runner up Staples, Inc.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an on-line bookstore but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD,music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture,food, toys, etc. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Japan. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.

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  2. Cloud Computing/Mobile Computing/Network Bandwidth, Green Data Centers and Telehousing

    Explore Article All Posts (Sep 3 2010)

    Cloud Computing/Mobile Computing/Network Bandwidth, Green Data Centers and Telehousing ...working from home has resulted in a lot of Web surfing and video consumption. The good news is that Amazon, Google, and other big cloud providers are investing in green data center technology to host their ... (Read Full Article)

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  3. HP Unveils Cloudstart to Speed Private Cloud Deployment

    Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 30 2010)

    HP Unveils Cloudstart to Speed Private Cloud Deployment ... said. Clouds can be rolled out in a number of different ways: using a cloud service provider like Amazon, building one internally or using a mixture of the two. The latter is usually called a hybrid cloud... (Read Full Article)

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  4. Red Hat Outlines Its Cloud Strategy

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 30 2010)

    Red Hat Outlines Its Cloud Strategy ...of public and private clouds including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Amazon EC2, Windows Hyper-V and more through Red Hat’s cloud engine. “Our enterprise customers leverage the JB... (Read Full Article)

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  5. Comparing the Cost of Cloud vs. Colocation

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 24 2010)

    Comparing the Cost of Cloud vs. Colocation ...is if you run highly-utilized servers, according to Vijay Gill, who recently ran a comparison using Amazon Web Services pricing as a benchmark. Gill is the Senior Manager of Production Network Engineering a... (Read Full Article)

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  6. Born in the Cloud: AWS Start-up Challenge

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 19 2010)

    Born in the Cloud: AWS Start-up Challenge Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued a call for entries to the fourth annual Start-Up Challenge, a contest... (Read Full Article)

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  7. A Chip Start-Up Aims to Slay Intel

    Explore Article dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com (Aug 16 2010)

    A Chip Start-Up Aims to Slay Intel ...el’s server-chip business and offer companies, especially those with vast data centers like Google, Amazon.com, Facebook and Microsoft, enormous energy cost savings. Acknowledging the David vs. Goliath strug... (Read Full Article)

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  8. Cloud Fears

    Explore Article Linux (Aug 11 2010)

    Cloud Fears ... cheer-leaders of the Cloud mantra. Then the arguably godfather role of cloud goes to Jeff Bezos of Amazon. His huge investment in Amazon data center with 30% utilization prompted him to seek new avenues of monetization. Thus came AWS (Amazon Web Services) and its component pieces such as S3, EC2, etc. In the new cloud lexicon, this can be ... (Read Full Article)

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  9. Rackspace Boosts Cloud Revenue, Margins

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 10 2010)

    Rackspace Boosts Cloud Revenue, Margins ...continues to offer the best window into the economics of cloud computing. Unlike its primary rival, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace provides detailed reporting on its cloud operations. And there was a lot to... (Read Full Article)

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  10. Will Amazon Become The King of Web Hosting Too?

    Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 9 2010)

    Will Amazon Become The King of Web Hosting Too? Amazon’s web services (AWS) are on track to being a half-a-billion dollar business. They’re home to some o... (Read Full Article)

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  11. Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010)

    Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough ...d that point in announcing the company’s data center plans. Twitter previously used NTT America and Amazon Web Services to its infrastructure. “Importantly, having our own data center will give us the flexi... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   eBay   Digital Realty

  12. I built my datacenter in 5 minutes sticker

    Explore Article greenm3.com (Jul 18 2010)

    I built my datacenter in 5 minutes sticker ... compete against a bunch of start-ups who are building data center capacity in 5 minutes leveraging Amazon's purchasing power? Sometimes it is speed of action that wins. Being able to quickly add and ... (Read Full Article)

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  13. CloudSwitch Launches Enterprise Edition

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 1 2010)

    CloudSwitch Launches Enterprise Edition ...sily into VMware and Xen environments. Customers can move Windows and Linux virtual machines to the Amazon EC2 and Terremark clouds, and run their applications in the cloud using existing management and monitor... (Read Full Article)

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  14. Capacity Planning at Internet Scale

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 25 2010)

    Capacity Planning at Internet Scale ...Zynga manages its infrastructure using a combination of its own data centers and servers running on Amazon Web Services’ EC2 service, which are managed by Rightscale. “We will continue to be balanced across... (Read Full Article)

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  15. Hamilton: Pace of Innovation is Quickening

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 24 2010)

    Hamilton: Pace of Innovation is Quickening ...ustry debates whether higher temperatures will affect the reliability of servers, James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services says some obvious test cases are being overlooked. “Game consoles are wild, multi-core... (Read Full Article)

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  16. CloudSwitch Makes Going Cloud as Simple as Can Be

    Explore Article GigaOM (Jun 23 2010)

    CloudSwitch Makes Going Cloud as Simple as Can Be ... or Xen environments, and running on Windows or Linux, are transported to compatible public clouds (Amazon EC2 and Terremark vCloud Express, initially) via a Layer-2 network bridge. CloudSwitch Makes Going Clou... (Read Full Article)

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