Amazon Web Services, which opened for business 15 years ago, doesn’t have the same consumer cachet as two-day shipping or Prime Video. Yet the importance of AWS to Amazon, consumers and the global Internet economy is difficult to overstate. — Dreamstime/TNS
It enables glitch-free Netflix streaming. It hosts digital drug-design tools of the kind that led to Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine. The Seahawks use its computing power to analyse game data. It stores a digital repository of King County’s archives. And even The Seattle Times relies on it to make sure the website doesn't crash during surges of reader traffic.
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