AWS, it is bigger than a very big thing.

Amazon wants to be everywhere..

[Leosghost]

Amazon Web Services has a lower public profile than the firm's online stores, but it already touches many lives.

From young tech titans, including Spotify, Dropbox, Netflix, Pinterest and Airbnb, to more established brands, such as General Electric, Samsung, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the BBC itself, a long list of organisations are turning to the US firm to provide some or all of their net-based services

It's proving popular too with governments seeking to cut their IT bills. Even the CIA recently became a customer.

[bbc.co.uk...]

[Essex_boy]

And i laughed when they started selling other items other than books......

[Aleksandr 85]

and i...

[J_RaD]

keep cutting your IT staff everyone!

you can resort to having "meetings" on how to fix what broke, sure the front desk phone lacky can manage our "cloud data" its easy, anyone can do it, thats why we have it!

I've watched a whole office of people that kept deleting each others files and folders on dropbox, nobody had a clue what the problem was or that they even deleted or dragged folders out... of course this was all dropboxes fault, and damn it customer service better restore all data ASAP cause this is unacceptable. even though the lvl of dropbox they had said right in the print *snooze you lose we don't back you up*

finally had to teach one of them to sync dropbox to a local machine so when one of them did their daily screw up they'd at least be able to get the recent-ish data back up without waiting 2 days on dropbox CS.

but its cloud, i use dropbox at home, so easy anyone can do it.

IT has always been viewed as a cost center... which isn't the way to look at it, but both sides have created this issue.