Their businesses need scalable infrastructure to develop and host the back-end services for their apps.
Large-scale websites are driven by numerous databases, APIs, and other back-end services.
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Why buy servers and hire people to run back-end services when you can simply outsource the whole operation and pay as you go?
Most have chosen to provide back-end scheduling services that the client company deploys on its site.
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The company has managed to break into the United States on the back of its relationships with local carriers, through providing their back-end telecommunications services, but it still lacks the clout that Samsung has in terms of relationships with key carriers.
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Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
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Most of these services are back-end and offer functionality that other developers use in their applications.
Public safety is unified in its quest for this additional spectrum and as the network begins to take shape, it will be working with the commercial network operators to share some services, back-end systems, and other assets in order to maximize the network while minimizing its costs.
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If a city were to try to go it alone, it would have to make huge investments in back-end systems to provide all of these services, to run the fiber directly to the homes, and in-home devices.
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Storing data in the cloud is becoming hugely popular not just for consumers who use it to keep photographs and other personal data safe but for businesses which are increasingly using cloud services to offer back-end processing power.
Linking different categories of information searches, websites logged, email, and other content back to the individual end-user obviously holds great appeal to Google as a mechanism for tailoring future services and advertisements to customer preferences.
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