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Amazon's Cloud Data Center To Follow Google To Oregon

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-state dept.

1sockchuck writes "All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud. It resides in servers and data centers. That's why Amazon.com is quietly building a large data center complex in Oregon along the Columbia River, not far from Google's secret data lair in The Dalles. Amazon Web Services started as a way to monetize excess data center capacity for its retail operation, but has grown to the point where it requires dedicated infrastructure. Amazon recently said that its S3 cloud storage service is hosting 29 billion objects."

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  1. Huh? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud.

    What? Now he tells me.

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    1. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud.

      What? Now he tells me.

      What next? No Heaven? No Easter Bunny? No Three Musketeers bars?

    2. Re:Huh? by aproposofwhat · · Score: 2, Funny

      Damn - now I've got Little Fluffy Clouds buzzing round my tiny brain.

      Haven't listened to that track in years.

      Still, at least I'll go to sleep in a good frame of mind...

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    3. Re:Huh? by operagost · · Score: 2, Funny

      It resides in tubes.

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  2. Re:Google's Secret Lair by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's true about Google's secret lair.

    Growing up in Oregon, there were often strange disappearances around The Dalles. Local folk stories talked about vans of mysterious Google workers kidnapping transients and performing experiments on them for upcoming products.

    Yes, I've been hearing about the new Google Implant. I don't think I'll be an early adopter on this one though.

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    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  3. Re:Oblig by kbrasee · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have died of dysentery. Settle here or move on?

  4. To Oregon? by dissy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Amazon's Cloud Data Center to Follow Google to Oregon

    Amazon has died of dysentery.