Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing

Aug 28, 2012, 17:40 PM by Michael Croft

New York Times | Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive goal: giving anyone on the planet access to an almost unimaginable amount of computing power.

August 28, 2012 | Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive goal: giving anyone on the planet access to an almost unimaginable amount of computing power. Thousands of companies now rent data storage and computer server time from Amazon Web Services for what they say is a fraction of the cost of owning and running their own computers. New York Times