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Amazon Web Services: The new Microsoft Windows

February 8, 2012 No Comments

SOURCE: InfoWorld

“As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion objects in Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times,” blogged Amazon.com This represents an annual growth rate of 192 percent.

Pretty good for a cloud company still growing a retail business. The growth can be attributed to Amazon Web Services’ focus on building a successful cloud storage offering and the rapid adoption of AWS — including the S3 cloud storage service — as the cloud computing standard.

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