{"id":1107,"date":"2008-04-21T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T20:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2008-04-21T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T20:10:44","slug":"amazons_big_uti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"AWS outgrows Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of Wired has a feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/it\/magazine\/16-05\/mf_amazon\">article<\/a> on Amazon Web Services, the online retailer&#8217;s computing utility. The article gives a sense of how rapidly the utility business, and its underlying infrastructure, is expanding. When AWS launched in earnest a couple of years ago, with the S3 storage utility, Amazon&#8217;s computer system was at times running at just 10% of its capacity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/amazons_utility.php\">according to<\/a> CEO Jeff Bezos. Now, AWS demand has &#8220;far exceeded the excess capacity of our internal system,&#8221; says AWS head Andy Jassy. AWS is &#8220;now big enough to be piling up its own silicon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good news for both Amazon and its AWS clients. It implies that the company has probably achieved what traditional utilities call a high &#8220;diversity factor&#8221; &#8211; a broad mix of clients with different and complementary demand patterns &#8211; which means, as well, that the system&#8217;s capacity utilization is probably quite high and quite steady. (When the Amazon system was only used by the Amazon store, in contrast, its diversity factor and capacity utilization were woefully low &#8211; a trait it had in common with most private corporate IT operations.) For any utility, achieving a high capacity utilization, or &#8220;load factor,&#8221; is crucial to success because it allows the capital invested in infrastructure to be used efficiently. For clients, in turn, that often translates into lower prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of Wired has a feature article on Amazon Web Services, the online retailer&#8217;s computing utility. The article gives a sense of how rapidly the utility business, and its underlying infrastructure, is expanding. When AWS launched in earnest a couple of years ago, with the S3 storage utility, Amazon&#8217;s computer system was at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}