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Amazon is quite a bit more than 'an internet shop'.

• buster 14y ago
  Nowadays. How would you describe Amazon before the rise of AWS? The fact that i didn't say Amazon and you recognized it says a lot, too :P
  • jrockway 14y ago
    They had a pretty neat fulfillment network before AWS. Amazon is pretty unique in that they make a lot of their internals available as products, but even before that, the infrastructure was still impressive. What other online store do you use? :)
    • buster 14y ago
      Yeah, but did they have their own server hardware, data centers, programming languages, CDNs, web frameworks, kernel developers, operating systems, invented new protocols and hosted all kinds of stuff on the internet for billions of users? ;) But of course, i probably use Amazon for 80% of my online shopping needs, they rock!
      • molmalo 14y ago
        Amusing. Your description fits very well for Google, Microsoft and Apple, if we leave server hardware aside, because I don't know exactly what hardware does Microsoft (or Apple) use in their own Datacenters. Does anybody know this?
        • buster 14y ago
          Sure, and i would expect them to offer a lot as well :P MS seems to use Dell (only link i could find): http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/28/dell-our-servers-will-power-windows-azure/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/28/dell-...
          • molmalo 14y ago
            Thanks for that. So it seem that they use a "highly-customized server platform". I hope they show eventually what those customizations are.