Microsoft is already competing with market leader Amazon Web Services, Google, Rackspace and many others.
Netflix uses Amazon Web Services in the first place because it provides a tremendous service.
Canvas then connects to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-computing network operated by Amazon.com Inc.
The HP Cloud is based on OpenStack and is a direct competitor to Amazon Web Services.
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Ooyala is an online video company that offers thousands of hours of high-definition video through Amazon Web Services.
Amazon Web Services has already won over customers such as the New York Times, Red Hat and SanDisk.
On the one hand, they have the promise of scalability of public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon Web Services even offers tools to help, including regions, availability zones, and multiple types of storage services.
From that point forward, the company started to use cloud hosting with Amazon Web Services to support the website.
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The company was publicly disappointed by the recent outages at Amazon Web Services.
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Amazon is taking on both companies with the announcement of Elastic Beanstalk, the latest addition to Amazon Web Services.
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Subsequently, Amazon developed a broader infrastructure for any type of digital properties, not just e-commerce, called Amazon Web Services.
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Public clouds like Amazon Web Services need not be just for consumer Internet companies like Netflix and Pinterest.
It's likely that today, Amazon Web Services may be powering your favorite app, its development platform and its host.
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As has become the standard for new Web-based startups, the site is using Amazon Web Services to provide computing services.
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In order to gain market-share from Amazon Web Services, the leader in the market, these companies have indulged in aggressive pricing.
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"We feel really good about our prospects, both for size and margins, " says Adam Selipsky, vice president at Amazon Web Services.
EC2 and EBS, as part of the Amazon Web Services suite, are designed with substantial amounts of redundancy and fail-over capability.
Amazon Web Services was launched in 2006 with the aim of providing online services for other web sites and client-side applications.
Last June, Google began ramping up its pursuit of Amazon by unveiling Google Compute Engine, a cloud-computing competitor to Amazon Web Services.
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The huge size of the North American cloud market seems like good news, indeed, for companies like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.
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Google and Amazon Web Services, he says, can certainly provide a platform, but lack the same depth of experience serving the enterprise.
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Amazon Web Services is a hidden jewel inside Amazon, but very little information is provided to investors to assess its financial success.
Amazon Web Services enables 6 to 8 of the top 10 Facebook apps, and is considered a market leader in cloud services.
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Renting a server from Amazon Web Services promises all the advantages of the Cloud: ephemeral, convenient computing without the nuisance of owning hardware.
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It also serves developers and enterprises of all sizes through Amazon Web Services, which provides access to technology infrastructure that enables virtually any type of business.
Amazon Web Services has already announced its reserved instances marketplace, essentially an eBay for selling off unused portions of pre-purchased AWS computing services.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), which rents computing capacity in its giant data centres to customers, has also won a reputation for being cheap.
Using elastic cloud resources from Amazon Web Services, for example, a tiny software developer can scale its Internet presence as fast as it wants.
As per usual the company provided no detail on the Kindle e-reader market, and did not break out the results of Amazon Web Services.
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