96. Q U E S T I O N S + C O M M E N T S
mawood@amazon.com
@mza
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Editor's Notes
Good morning, my name is X, I'm Y for Amazon Web Services, based in Singapore.\nToday we will talk about Cloud Computing, and explain to you why it's important to know about it.\n
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Another example, also a hedge fund. Lot more spiky since they do High Frequency Trading\n
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I could talk about our customers for hours. In fact, we have hundreds of thousands of customers in more than 190 countries, from small startups to huge enterprise customers, government agencies, spanning every possible market segment.\n
If you use Facebook, you surely know Farmville, the most successful game so far.\nThe company behind Farmville is Zynga.com.\n
If you use Facebook, you surely know Farmville, the most successful game so far.\nThe company behind Farmville is Zynga.com.\n
Let's move into the enterprise space.\nNetflix is a very successful company that rents movies on DVD.\nSince the DVD rental business is shrinking very fast, they decided to get into the online business, and since a few years they also offer video on demand.\nAbout two years ago, Netflix had its own Data Center in the US.\nThe video on demand business was becoming more and more important, and when they explored the possibility of building a second Data Center, they realized that it would have been a bad idea.\nInstead, they turned to Amazon Web Services.\n
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Let's move into the enterprise space.\nNetflix is a very successful company that rents movies on DVD.\nSince the DVD rental business is shrinking very fast, they decided to get into the online business, and since a few years they also offer video on demand.\nAbout two years ago, Netflix had its own Data Center in the US.\nThe video on demand business was becoming more and more important, and when they explored the possibility of building a second Data Center, they realized that it would have been a bad idea.\nInstead, they turned to Amazon Web Services.\n
It's also important to mention a great partner ecosystem, companies that partnered with Amazon to offer their technology or their services to our end customers.\n
It's also important to mention a great partner ecosystem, companies that partnered with Amazon to offer their technology or their services to our end customers.\n