Today I saw an interview with the CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos. Internet companies have made money quite easily, and they have been spending it quite lavishly also. The business for them is simple compared to traditional business. And thats where Amazon has got an advantage. Amazon is an online retailer whose business has got online and offline sections. The online part is easy, but the offline part, managing the inventory and the...

  Amazon recently announced a competition for developers using their web services. Developers can submit various business ideas that use amazon services and after the best entry will get a prize of 100,000 $ My idea is to use Amazon Ec2 services to create a load testing application for websites and other web services. A cluster image will be created, which is capable of bombarding the application under load test with a lot of...

Mobshare is now using Amazon S3 storage for serving all the media uploaded by the users.  The decision to move to Amazon happened after a server performance issue. A local daily featured Mobshare and our server couldn’t handle the load and the performance degraded. We lost a lot of new registrations that day because many couldnt sign up as the pages were loading very slow. Amazon S3 was a easy option to offload the media....