[ Cloud Computing ] Re: Big Players cornered the cloud?

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Mitchell Garnaat
<mitch.garnaat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Amazon is clearly leveraging the expertise they gained in running an
> internet scale, distributed web service for many years in a very low margin
> business. But they are not selling their excess capacity from their retail
> operation. In fact, they stated publicly that the total bandwidth consumed
> by AWS exceeded the bandwidth consumed by all of their retail properties
> combined. And that was over a year ago.\

OK, I was making an assumption that might not be true.

However, either way, bandwidth is irrelevant. It's computational
capacity that is the issue.

-P.

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