Amazon has plenty of spare cycles most of the year (hence Mechanical Turk and all this excess datacenter capacity they can contract out). - They have this b/c t

Amazon has plenty of spare cycles most of the year (hence Mechanical Turk and all this excess datacenter capacity they can contract out). - They have this b/c they need to be able to accommodate their extrmeley peaky demand (i.e. holiday shopping season!!!) - I wonder if this means netflix streaming will be significantly for flaky in the run-up to Xmas :)