Interview With Jeff Bezos On Amazon Web Services
Written by on November 14th, 2006 in Ajax News.
Moments after Jeff Bezos left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to talk to him for a few minutes about Amazon’s web services ambitions. Jeff is emphasizing that new services like Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are going to be a key business line for them in the future, and they are planting the seeds now.
This was also the subject of a recent cover story on Business Week (written by Rob Hof, one of Silicon Valley’s best tech writers). While these services are still in their infancy, a high profile group of companies are starting to jump on board: Microsoft, Xerox and Second Life are all customers. And SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill recently wrote a long blog post gushing about the amount of money they are saving using S3 over alternative solutions - $500k so far and an estimated $1 million or more in 2007.
Listen to our discussion over on TalkCrunch.
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