The New York Times: Cloud computing will become the third driver of electric books

"I appreciate Amazon, it is because it does not profit from the market through the" right-wing market-oriented "admirers, he will not use resources relentlessly, will not pursue power and wealth without restriction, will not control the government properly, will not avoid the cost of social commitment, and will not endlessly chatter about the so-called truth and philosophy. ”

From online Electronics mall to the birth of the Kindle model, it seems that Amazon is to transform the world, Bezos's next move? "Thenewyorktimes" (New York Times) tells us that cloud computing will be another way for Amazon to change the Internet's ecology:

In just a few years, Amazon has "creatively undermined" traditional book publishing and retailing, but the company has a bigger and more secretive goal: to provide people with powerful, incredible computing power.

"I have 10 engineers, but without AWS (Amazonwebservices), I need 60 engineers and AWS is getting cheaper," said Daniel, Cue's 20-Year-old co-founder, Danielgross. He said that the use of Amazon services only cost 100,000 dollars a month, if all their own processing, "may need 2 million of dollars, and slow, lack of flexibility." ”

He admits: "I don't even know how much it costs to buy a server, and for me, it's as unfamiliar as the price of a sword." ”

Amazon's efforts are just the beginning of a global rivalry between computing giants. This June, Google launched a service similar to AWS, and Microsoft has its own windowsazure.

Amazon has not revealed much about AWS, but it is estimated to have brought 1 billion of billions of dollars in revenue to Amazon. AWS has 3 Mega regional centers in Virginia State, Oregon State and California State in the United States, each with multiple buildings and thousands of servers.

AWS also has regional hubs in Japan, Ireland, Singapore and Brazil. Its pace of expansion is accelerating. It opened 4 new regional centres in 2011 and is expected to open another 4 this year. Amazon CEO Bezos (Bezos) is interested in building cloud computing facilities for other governments.

"We believe that the AWS business will not be smaller than other Amazon businesses," said Iaşi, the AWS leader. Amazon's revenue last year was about 50 billion dollars. Mr Iaşi believes that the final size of AWS will exceed 10 times times its current size.

All data from the Amazon cloud has its value. People leave data about themselves and other people can analyze them. At any time, there are about 1 million users in AWS using a powerful database called Elasticmapreduce to carry out predictive activity. Some predictions suggest playing a new movie or playing a new video game while others are used for advertising, credit histories, or advice about dating.

The efficiency of this "hyper-perception" (hyper-aware) environment creates jobs for many people, but may allow more people to find jobs again. Gohan Spencer, a partner at Google Venture Capital, Grahamspencer: "Now you can test your product for millions of users with just thousands of dollars, and you can start a company with one or two employees." This is a huge change for Silicon Valley. ”

David Richer Davidrisher, a senior Amazon executive, said: "Bezos's vision is grand." AWS is a business opportunity, but it is also the idea of letting others build large systems. That's how Amazon changes the world. ”

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)