AMAZON

Amazon

Amazon

Introduction

Between 1995 and 2001, e-commerce became the fastest-growing form of commerce in the world. In the United States alone, it grew from virtually nothing in 1995 to a volume of almost $65 billion in business-to-consumer trade and roughly $700 billion in business-to-business transactions in 2001. Despite astoundingly rapid growth, e-commerce had mixed success. In 1994, entrepreneur Jeff Bezos launched Amazon.com, an Internet book retailer that lacked the traditional “brick and mortar” infrastructure. Although Amazon.com had annual sales of over $2 billion by 2000, it suffered significant losses from its inception until the fourth quarter of 2001, when it finally reported a “pro forma operating profit” (a profit that excludes amortization of goodwill stock-based compensation and any restructuring costs). Mail-order catalogues are currently supplemented with information about companies posted on their Websites. Many companies put their entire catalogue of goods online and invite home purchases. Online booksellers Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and others have expanded their catalogues to include many other goods, thereby moving in the direction of becoming online department stores (Odlyzko,1999,3-9).

Current usage of the Internet evokes an image of a vast public sector version of Amazon.com, that is, a more efficient means to provide more public goods and services to citizens. While there is much to be said for this, many cannot help but be disappointed that the Internet's democratic potential is currently underutilized and that a golden opportunity for the virtual town hall is disappearing. Whether the Web's potential can still be fulfilled depends on the choices politicians, government officials, and ordinary citizens make with regard to issues of access and the role of ICT in democratic government. The “golden age” of community networking is apparently past. Replacing the heady optimism of the early days is a greater sense of the limitations of information and communications technologies to bring about lasting changes in society (Odlyzko,1999,3-9).

Question 1

Technology services

Amazon provides a range of products into a virtual superstore with the product offering in 36 categories that include clothing, jewellery, furniture and groceries. Amazingly, now the customer can get the computer power of Linux servers from Amazon too, which is a big revolution in the history of online purchase.

Recently, Amazon has developed a commuting capacity, and it is considered by many to be the most robust in the world. Amazon came up with S3 that is a data storage service designed to make the web commuting easier and affordable. Customers have to pay 15 cents per gigabyte per month on the website of a disk. Amazon is a technology company that brings the wealth of engineering prowess on the computer systems (Jeffrey, 2003,41-50).

The advanced computing capacity is Amazon web service. The club users Amazon Web Services is an association of users or professionals interested in the Infrastructure as a Service. This is a community of enthusiasts and individuals strongly convinced of the immediate benefits of the services offered by Amazon. Far from any marketing mirage, club AWS France aims to gather, organize and coordinate experiences and initiatives of goshawks and more ...