Amazon is the nation's largest online e-commerce company after Alibaba Group in term of overall sales. It is located in Seattle, Washington and founded by Jeff Bezos. Amazon is one of the earliest companies to start e-commerce on the Internet. Other than that, the company have also includes AlexaInternet, a9, lab126, Internet Movie Database and other subsidiaries. However, Jeff Bezos has seen the potential and characteristics of the network, when the physical large bookstores provide 200,000 books; online bookstores can provide more than 200,000 books and more choices for readers. Since its establishment in 1994, Amazon started its book sales business exclusively through the Internet. Now, it is not only for books, it has expanded to a very …show more content…
By using cloud computing, users and company do not have to spend time on doing these things, and it may pay only for the actual amount. (Developer.amazon.com, 2017)
Second, speed and agility of Amazon AWS is to develop and deploy applications faster. With legacy infrastructure, it can take weeks to procure, deliver and run the server. Such a long period of time stifled innovation. With cloud computing, it can preconfigure the amount of resources based on company needs. It also can deploy hundreds or even thousands of servers in minutes without discussing with anyone. This self-service environment changes as fast as you develop and deploy your application, allowing your team to experiment faster and more often. (Developer.amazon.com, 2017)
Global coverage is also one of the benefits which is Amazon are likely to have potential customers around the world. With traditional infrastructure, it is difficult to provide the best performance for a broad base of users, and most companies focus on the cost and time savings of only one geographical area at a time. With cloud computing, things can look different, so you can easily deploy your applications across 9 AWS regions or one of the world's regions. This means you can help your customers get lower latency and a better experience with the least cost. (Developer.amazon.com,