How Will Amazon Affect the Web Hosting Market?
It seems as though Amazon web services may have plans to develop a greater presence on the web hosting market. Although plenty of users have been using Amazon web services to host their web sites for a while now, the company has never directly made an attempt to take on the market or provide URLs for users. The potential, however, is latent within the makeup of the services they already offer.
Because of the breadth and the simplicity of the services already offered through Amazon web services, companies have been flocking to them without any real encouragement. Amazon's trajectory into the world of web services truly began with cloud computing; the company also offers storage services, database services, and advanced cloud networking. None of these services were necessarily created specifically for web hosting, but people have found ways to use them to their advance anyway, making Amazon an unexpected competitor on the scene.
In fact, Venture Beat is reporting that Amazon web services will see $500 million in revenue this year, mostly with the help of social gaming, such as Farmville on Facebook.
Although these services have been around for a while, many people are just now starting to pick up on just how flexible and creative these services can be, allowing many applications and media to interact with each other based on cloud computing.
Who has already benefiting from Amazon? Newsweek, PBC, Digitaria, Razorfish, and Netflix have all been using Amazon web services for at least over a year now.
So what could really push Amazon directly into the forefront of the web hosting market? Just adding a simple URL would allow people to continue doing what they already are – building solid web sites based in Amazon services. Amazon could potentially become a massive force in the web hosting market by embracing how their users are already using their services. Their influence would affect not only the users by providing the service more directly, but also by influencing the way in which we conceive of web hosting in terms of cloud computing.
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Because of the breadth and the simplicity of the services already offered through Amazon web services, companies have been flocking to them without any real encouragement. Amazon's trajectory into the world of web services truly began with cloud computing; the company also offers storage services, database services, and advanced cloud networking. None of these services were necessarily created specifically for web hosting, but people have found ways to use them to their advance anyway, making Amazon an unexpected competitor on the scene.
In fact, Venture Beat is reporting that Amazon web services will see $500 million in revenue this year, mostly with the help of social gaming, such as Farmville on Facebook.
Although these services have been around for a while, many people are just now starting to pick up on just how flexible and creative these services can be, allowing many applications and media to interact with each other based on cloud computing.
Who has already benefiting from Amazon? Newsweek, PBC, Digitaria, Razorfish, and Netflix have all been using Amazon web services for at least over a year now.
So what could really push Amazon directly into the forefront of the web hosting market? Just adding a simple URL would allow people to continue doing what they already are – building solid web sites based in Amazon services. Amazon could potentially become a massive force in the web hosting market by embracing how their users are already using their services. Their influence would affect not only the users by providing the service more directly, but also by influencing the way in which we conceive of web hosting in terms of cloud computing.
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