It seems that many people forgot how and why Amazon began to market its cloud computing solutions. Amazon had to build its infrastructure to support the Christm

It seems that many people forgot how and why Amazon began to market its cloud computing solutions. Amazon had to build its infrastructure to support the Christmas rush, and its platform is idle most of the rest of the time. So they decided to sell these available computing resources. Of course, this platform may fail, but whatever infrastructure you're relying upon it may fail at some point. Even when you're relying upon trucks to ship your products in time, having a backup rail plan may be a good idea. However, I hope you business is mostly idle around Christmas, because there's little doubt that Amazon will serve its own applications first, so you'd better have a serious backup plan...