LT Amazon.com® Evolution
Deborah Grant
Damain Gross
Jerome Riley Adrienne Simpson
Katherine Crockett
BIS/219
August 19, 2010
David Henry

LT Amazon.com® Evolution Whereas Amazon.com is known as the world’s leading on-line retailer, it is competing with Google and Microsoft to create a global web-based computing platform.

Over many years, Amazon.com gradually has situated the business as an aggressive technology company in the course of a sequence of services referred to as Amazon Web Services (AWS). These are services whereas Amazon rents parts of its back-end infrastructure to other IT groups and developers (New York Times, 2010) because 90% of it was not being used. Amazon.com offers a number of benefits such as cost-effectiveness, reliability, flexibility, and intellectual capacity. The aggressive AWS products in which Amazon highlights are Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Mechanical Turk is a marketplace which provides an on-demand workforce which necessitates human astuteness since there are various tasks in which human beings can complete more efficiently than central processing units. Amazon S3 permits businesses to store information on Amazon’s PC and “gives any developer the right to use to the identical high scalable, dependable, fast, economical information storage space infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its global network of websites” (Amazon Web Services, 2010). The EC2 allows developers inclusive control of computing resources while running within Amazon’s computing setting.

Reference Amazon Web Services (2010). Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Amazon Web Services (2010). Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).