Say, Wal-Mart has the world's most efficient and most comprehensive procurement, warehousing, logistics and retail systems, but no one believes that Wal-Mart is an IT company, because its IT resources is completely prepared for themselves. Amazon is different, it spent a huge amount of investment, building their own storage and logistics systems, data center, strong technology research and development capacity, and computing resources, these resources can be used for their book sales, it also can be used to sell digital music, digital books, selling Kindle reader, further, the resources themselves can be sold as a commodity.
Use of advanced information management systems, Amazon can be rented to the warehouse, and distribution system qianbaiwange United States enterprises, this service is referred to as FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon). That is, if you are a business, but you sell something, the rest, including shops, advertising, promotion, payment process, until the logistics and distribution, all delegates to the Amazon.
In addition, Amazon also was the first to offer cloud computing services company. Amazon's cloud computing services including computing power, storage, database, query a range of services, Amazon become IT infrastructure provider in the Web era.
For example, one of my favorite network storage and sharing service Dropbox, the front-end is a client-side software and Web management interface, backend is completely using Amazon's S3 storage service. As a small entrepreneurial company, Dropbox can provide the user with 2G free storage space, and do not flow to any restrictions. Huge storage, using Amazon computing power, a large number of small Web startups such as Dropbox, also can provide large-scale, high-quality online services. Even large customers such as the New York Times and the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, also their services direct access to the Amazon Cloud.
Amazon stand up to the outside world questions, establishment of large sums of money resources such as storage, computing, today has become the core of the Amazon's most valuable competitive, make Amazon a power company in the Web age. Just like the maximum flow of rivers in the world, nourishing the world's largest rainforest, Amazon is becoming the new eco-the most important link in the Internet. Then question the Amazon, waiting to see who joke, did not shut up now, but today they questioned objects into Facebook, Twitter, etc.
No shortage of people who sell things in China, Taobao had 1.05 million sellers. But when can we have an Amazon so IT company?
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