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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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon Elastic Transcoder, a highly scalable service for transcoding video files between different digital media formats.
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On the one hand, they have the promise of scalability of public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon Web Services (AWS), which rents computing capacity in its giant data centres to customers, has also won a reputation for being cheap.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis.
Delivering on the portability promise also addresses the critical issue of interruptions and back-up recovery, as we recently saw with the high-profile Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage.
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In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.
This is not the first time this year Amazon has had issues with AWS and EC2 hosting.
Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20, 000 Get Requests, 2, 000 Put Requests, and 15GB of data transfer out each month for one year.
"At OneScreen, we are excited to add Amazon Elastic Transcoder to our broad utilization of the AWS cloud, " said Patrick Ting, CTO, OneScreen, Inc.
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Investors have believed AWS to be a hidden gem within Amazon, and it well could be, but when overall consolidated growth is slowing and costs are increasing, investors need more than faith.
With decelerating growth, pressure on margins and limited transparency on the growth drivers of AWS and the Kindle business segments, Amazon does not deserve a multiple on its stock equal to estimated growth.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder removes the need to manage infrastructure and transcoding software, providing scalability and performance by leveraging AWS services.
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