Amazon, this week, unveiled a new service to help companies ship digital content such as MP3s and software applications of all sizes around the globe. The idea behind this push into being a computing infrastructure provider is to leverage the vast expertise that it has already developed running its complex and successful web operation. This new service, which is in private trials at the moment, will see Amazon replicating customers' files to its data centers located around the world in the United States, Europe, and Asia. This way, users should be able to download the digital files faster from a nearer distribution node. Amazon intends to have the service ready before the year is out.
To read up more about this story:
- check out this New York Times blog [1]
Links:
[1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/amazon-enters-the-file-shipping-business/