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Sun, 12/26/2004 - 01:30 — Christoph C. Cemper

Jeff Barr from Amazon – AWS team has a nice blog up at typepad that covers all Amazon Web services news…

AWS is the web service technology that 1000s of affiliates use to build their amazon shops… also the product infos you see listed on this site are downloaded via AWS from Amazon…

And after 2+ years of operation finally MIT Technology Review Covers AWS ...

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I have a trendous amount of admiration for Amazon because they really revised their philosophy. Their philosophy three years ago was that they'd spent hundreds of millions building a product database, and that their database was their most sacred asset.

Now Amazon has 65,000 registered developers and 500,000 resellers.

They're saying to them, we'll offer the product channel, you just come and sell here. They realize now that their biggest asset is actually their retailing partners. They sell less and less of the products they stock themselves, and are increasing the share of third-party resellers who sell through them. I think that was a big, big task. I don't know if other [e-commerce] companies can catch up.

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Sun, 12/26/2004 - 15:03 — Brad Feld (not verified)

Amazon Web Services Blog

What's the link to Jeff Barr's blog?

Sun, 12/26/2004 - 20:44 — Christoph C. Cemper (not verified)

Amazon Web Services Blog

Hi Brad,

the link is in there...

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2004/12/mit_technology_.html

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