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Amazon's Cloud Now 1% of Internet Traffic

Posted by Unknown on from the cloud-internet-convergence dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Wired story claims Amazon's cloud now hosts enough companies and traffic to generate 1% of all Internet traffic (and visits from 1/3 of daily Internet users). An amazing number if true. And a little scary for one company to host this much cloud infrastructure."

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  1. Akamai was there years ago by ProfessionalTech · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And a little scary for one company to host this much cloud infrastructure.

    Right. Akamai delivers around 20% of internet's traffic, is basically cloud content provider and has been so since the 90's. There's still long way for Amazon to go.

    1. Re:Akamai was there years ago by ProfessionalTech · · Score: 4, Informative

      And delivering static content (images, videos, software executables and patches and so on) is what makes most of the traffic on Amazon's network, so thinking about non-internet related purposes on a story about how much traffic Amazon has is a moot point. Besides, Akamai's CDN and the availability of their network in different parts of the world is much more impressive than Amazon's.

  2. LOL, Raise their taxes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, they ARE the 1%

  3. 1% is "a little scary"? by gstrickler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's scary is that the author thinks 1% is scary. Let's talk again if they hit 10%.

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  4. Re:Get ready for it by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Amazon.com customer:

    Fred, we noticed from your surfing history that you recently viewed

    More likely:

    "Dear Amazon.com customer:
    Bob, we noticed from your surfing history that you recently viewed porn.

    You may also be interested in: more porn.

    Sincerely, Jeff B. and Amazon.com"

    The advantage of that message is that you don't even really need to check the user's history.

  5. Akamai doesn't generate traffic by CaptainNerdCave · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Akamai is like a company that handles the pedestrian and motor traffic, they don't actually generate anything. Their business model is designed around traffic management and _content_delivery_.

    Amazon, Google, et al are generating the traffic.

  6. Fixed that... by DerekLyons · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "And a little scary for one company (other than Google or Apple) to host this much cloud infrastructure."
     
    There, fixed that for you.

  7. Netflix? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But Netflix is said to use 32% of bandwidth (http://on.msnbc.com/HS3Or5), and Netflix is hosted by AWS, isn't it

    1. Re:Netflix? by hobarrera · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I seriously doubt this: Netflix isn't available in most countries outside USA, an I'm pretty sure Asia adds up far more traffic than USA.

    2. Re:Netflix? by alen · · Score: 4, Informative

      netflix is hosted by level 3 inside the ISP's networks

      they use amazon for the authentication part

  8. "Server" Costs by Bigbutt · · Score: 3, Informative

    I spec'd out a cloud server a few months ago to replace my physical server and the yearly cost of the Amazon cloud server that matched my physical box was just about double (it cost more to get a 64bit system vs a 32bit system).

    [John]

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    1. Re:"Server" Costs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yes. Using a Cloud for 1:1 replacement of a physical hardware is silly. The point is to use the Cloud to flexibly manage your instances I.e. if you're hosting a website, you can spin up more instances during your busy hours, and shut them down again when it's quite: unlike physical hardware, which would sit idle during the quite periods.