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Maybe they should consider hosting in the cloud.
by adrr 14y ago
Maybe they should consider hosting in the cloud.
- JohnFromBuffalo 14y agoI hear this grid-computing stuff is pretty capable. distributed applications are the future! Anyone want to pay me for time-share on my VAX?
- mixedbit 14y agoThey should definitely try AWS. It is ridiculous that a simple online store manages its own infrastructure.
- hayksaakian 14y agoAWS was actually UP all this time, so perhaps that's not a bad suggestion.
- thspimpolds 14y agoWow. You really don't know why AWS exists. AWS is Amazon.com. http://www.zdnet.com/how-amazon-exposed-its-guts-the-history-of-awss-ec2-3040155310/ http://www.zdnet.com/how-amazon-exposed-its-guts-the-history... As for why, it's easy. Taxes. Much like Walmart rents its stores form an LLC it owns to write off the taxes and bring down the liability of the largest revenue sector, Amazon can write off their server costs since they can "rent" them from AWS LLC. While AWS makes a good chunk of change, it has nothing on amazon.com so by making AWS its own entity (and event better for them that its publicly available) they get a gigantic tax write off and AWS makes capex expenditures saving them taxes. All In all, the shell game must save amazon millions just like it does for Walmart
- _frog 14y agoI think you might have missed a joke there.
- iand 14y agoYour humour radar needs calibrating
- hayksaakian 14y agoIt seems like the irony eluded you. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-joke http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-joke
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