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Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services?

Mixed by Antoine Perdaens (COO @ Whatever) in Enterprise 2.0

23 April
An article originally posted on TechCrunch

“So who are using these services? A high-ranking Amazon executive told me there are 60,000 different customers across the various Amazon Web Services, and most of them are not the startups that are normally associated with on-demand computing. Rather the biggest customers in both number and amount of computing resources consumed are divisions of banks, pharmaceuticals companies and other large corporations who try AWS once for a temporary project, and then get hooked.” Read the full article at www.techcrunch.com

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In my opinion…

It is really interesting to see this move happening. Sensitive information is probably anonymised before its uploaded onto the Amazon services, but still it probably has caused a big stretch in the Security and Legal departments of these large corporations.

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