From the link: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/amazon-cloud/?utm_source=Contextly&utm_medium=RelatedLinks&utm_campaign=Previous
Amazon’s Secretive Cloud Carries 1 Percent of the Internet
Amazon introduced its first cloud service, the Elastic Compute Cloud, in 2006, basing it on the technology it had developed in-house while building up Amazon.com.
It’s now caught on as a quick way for companies to spin up servers without actually having to set up their own computers. Amazon now sells even more data center resources — storage, databases and search-indexing, for example — as cloud services.
It’s now caught on as a quick way for companies to spin up servers without actually having to set up their own computers. Amazon now sells even more data center resources — storage, databases and search-indexing, for example — as cloud services.
It’s popular with companies that see big spikes and drops in computing demand. Netflix uses it to handle the back-end of its streaming service, which is in hot demand on Sunday nights and then gets quiet a few hours later. And Amazon even managed to build one of the world’s 50 most powerful supercomputers on its cloud.
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