tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post2320039048132330541..comments2024-03-28T13:39:27.601-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: Amazon owns the cloudDavid.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-31017053514249282912015-12-26T07:56:28.705-08:002015-12-26T07:56:28.705-08:00Alex Shephard at The New Republic weighs in with A...Alex Shephard at <i>The New Republic</i> weighs in with <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/126369/amazon-dominated-nearly-everything-year" rel="nofollow"><i>Amazon Dominated Nearly Everything This Year</i></a>:<br /><br />"According to [Farhad] Manjoo, “Deutsche Bank estimates that AWS, which is less than a decade old, could soon be worth $160 billion as a stand-alone company. That’s more valuable than Intel.”"David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-61151246464323219222015-12-20T07:04:30.684-08:002015-12-20T07:04:30.684-08:00Around Silicon Valley Amazon-branded delivery truc...Around Silicon Valley Amazon-branded delivery trucks are now a common sight. Bloomberg reports that we may soon see <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/amazon-said-to-mull-leasing-planes-to-control-delivery-chain" rel="nofollow">Amazon-branded planes</a> as part of Amazon's <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2015-12-18/amazon-seeks-more-control-over-delivery-of-customers-packages" rel="nofollow">"war to the door"</a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-48792205942745943952015-12-18T06:33:22.472-08:002015-12-18T06:33:22.472-08:00In the US, Amazon captures almost 40% of all onlin...In the US, Amazon captures <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-16/amazon-is-capturing-bigger-slice-of-u-s-online-holiday-spending" rel="nofollow">almost 40% of all online spending</a>: <br /><br />"Amazon took in 39.3 percent of e-commerce spending from Nov. 1 through Dec. 6, up from 37.9 percent during the same period a year earlier, according to Slice Intelligence, which gathers data through e-mail receipts of 3.5 million shoppers. You’d have to combine the Web sales of the next 21 retailers, including Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy Co., Macy’s Inc. Home Depot Inc., Nordstrom Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp., to match Amazon’s share, Slice data shows."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-18161185863900608962015-12-02T10:10:08.695-08:002015-12-02T10:10:08.695-08:00Note that Amazon also owns retail. Bloomberg repor...Note that Amazon also owns retail. Bloomberg reports that Deutsche Bank estimates that in the US <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-compared-to-traditional-retail-in-one-chart-2015-11" rel="nofollow">Amazon will significantly outsell all department store chains combined</a> this year and will outsell them by a factor of 2 in 2017.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-20834656256092828032015-10-22T18:28:22.043-07:002015-10-22T18:28:22.043-07:00Chris Williams at The Register reports on Amazon&#...Chris Williams at <i>The Register</i> reports on <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/23/amazon_q3_2015_aws/" rel="nofollow">Amazon's Q3 results</a>:<br /><br />"In the past three months, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had made about as much money – $521m ... – as its online shop did in the US and Canada. The public cloud has more than one million active customers in 190 countries, we're told."<br /><br />Up from $391M in Q2, or 33% in 3 months. Revenue for the quarter was $25.35bn but, in a surprise move, Amazon made money:<br /><br />"Earnings per share were $0.17 up from an earnings loss per share of $0.95 this time last year. Analysts were expecting a loss of $0.13 per share and revenues totalling $24.9bn this quarter; Amazon beat both."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-31826156132250862212015-09-24T08:33:29.016-07:002015-09-24T08:33:29.016-07:00Chris Williams at The Register points me to Amazon...Chris Williams at <i>The Register</i> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/aws_outage_explained/" rel="nofollow">points me to</a> Amazon's usual admirably detailed <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/message/5467D2/" rel="nofollow">explanation for last Sunday's major outage</a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-38310745359828300582015-09-17T14:24:26.677-07:002015-09-17T14:24:26.677-07:00Amazon just announced the first price cut for Glac...Amazon just announced the first <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-option-glacier-price-reduction/" rel="nofollow">price cut for Glacier</a> in just over three years since its introduction, to 0.7c/month.<br /><br />The announcement also included a new S3 option for Infrequent Access:<br /><br />"Prices for Standard – IA start at $0.0125 / gigabyte / month (one and one-quarter US pennies), with a 30 day minimum storage duration for billing, and a $0.01 / gigabyte charge for retrieval (in addition to the usual data transfer and request charges). Further, for billing purposes, objects that are smaller than 128 kilobytes are charged for 128 kilobytes of storage. We believe that this pricing model will make this new storage class very economical for long-term storage, backups, and disaster recovery, while still allowing you to quickly retrieve older data if necessary."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-44483285175988209502015-09-10T04:52:09.152-07:002015-09-10T04:52:09.152-07:00Matt Asay at The Register has a thoughtful piece e...Matt Asay at <i>The Register</i> has a thoughtful piece entitled <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/10/amazon_myth_of_cloud_portability_aws/" rel="nofollow"><i>Stuck in Amazon's web tentacles yet? You will be soon</i></a>, pointing to the array of services Amazon is spawning on top of the AWS infrastructure as making it extremely difficult to move away from AWS once you've started using it.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-45348411622410344542015-07-24T12:20:36.865-07:002015-07-24T12:20:36.865-07:00Those of you who frequent airports will have notic...Those of you who frequent airports will have noticed how many advertisements there are for cloud services. Did you ever see one for AWS? I didn't think so. Amazon doesn't even need to advertise. Everyone already knows that cloud = Amazon.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.com