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Amazons largest "batch" job is their holiday shopping season. They must purchase the horsepower to get them through that season, and then the rest of the year t
by matt_wulfeck 10y ago
Amazons largest "batch" job is their holiday shopping season. They must purchase the horsepower to get them through that season, and then the rest of the year they can resell it. I believe this was the original motivation for AWS.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoA coauthor of the original proposal for AWS denies that: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/the-myth-about-how-amazon-s-web-service-started-just-won-t-die.amp.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/...
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- dragonwriter 10y agoIf it was, they'd have to shutdown AWS for the holidays.