I’ve been working with amazon aws and I’m confused how amazon can possibly have enough hardware to handle all it’s customers and users. I was reading one of the benefits of cloud storage is that there’s no hardware maintenance for the user and no need to upgrade every X amount of years. Wouldn’t amazon run into the same issue? Wouldn’t they need to update their hardware every X years and wouldn’t it cost millions of dollars?
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Amazon has vast data centers it maintains so that users if AWS doesn’t have to. It has cost Amazon billions of dollars to build the infrastructure over the past 2 decades — a big reason why they weren’t profitable for so many years. But now that they’ve invested the time and money into building AWS, it’s a cash cow because of how few competitors there are on the scale they can offer to large customers and ease of use for small ones.
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