Amazon's Jeff Bezos Dishes The Dirt On IT 'Muck' - News by InformationWeek

The Amazon services fascinate me, and the way different companies might use these services is just beginning.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Dishes The Dirt On IT 'Muck' - News by InformationWeek: "Bezos: You could move large pieces of infrastructure and we do have large clients using it in different ways. Xerox Global Services is an example of a very large customer with very spiky utilization, so it's an ideal service for them, because of the spikiness. It's the kind of company where they will have a customer that says, 'I have five acres of filing cabinets and I need to digitize it all, OCR it all, and then make it all searchable.' So those kinds of things are very compute intensive, but they're projects. They have a beginning and an end. And if you're Xerox Global Services, you don't necessarily want to have to carry that compute capacity to be able to do those things 24 by 7, if you're only doing it in these spikes. With the right amount of due diligence and the right amount of care and thoughtfulness, very large services could move onto this kind of infrastructure. "