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Amazon's Cloud Data Center To Follow Google To Oregon
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."
If by "stupidly secretive" you mean "thrifty and not buying all the latest aerial imagery all the time"...
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Which is one of the advantages of remote data storage. If you keep your backups and have someone else far away keeping you data too. Then if something big happens Say say a Hurricane your data is still safe. Unlike someone who may have an excellent backup plan, however they get hit with a big disaster and a complete wipe out of their data is possible. The cost of say $1,000,000 of hardware is nothing compared to say a couple of terabytes of data.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Compared to California property is also cheap for now. If you want to recruit workers who know what they're doing and pay them under $150k, that's a plus.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Can someone explain what an "object" is?