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Quotations tagged recovered in Jan, 2011

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National politics of snoopiness vs corporate ethic of not being evil aren’t directly compatible, and the solution here only works because (let’s face it) Tunisia is not a rising economic force. If you’re selling ads in China, you don’t get to pretend that the Great Firewall of China is a security issue.

Nat Torkington

# 24th January 2011, 6:11 pm / china, nat-torkington, security, recovered, tunisia

The excess capacity story is a myth. It was never a matter of selling excess capacity, actually within 2 months after launch AWS would have already burned through the excess Amazon.com capacity.  Amazon Web Services was always considered a business by itself, with the expectation that it could even grow as big as the Amazon.com retail operation.

Werner Vogels

# 5th January 2011, 3:13 pm / amazon, amazon-web-services, ec2, s3, recovered