Assignment: Amazon Evolution
Tracy Robinson Dalke
XBIS 219 Business Information Systems
June 19, 2011
Leslie D'Anjou

Assignment: Amazon Evolution
In order to keep up in the global revolution of internet Amazon has created services they can provide to businesses to utilize their unused processing capacity. These services make Amazon’s infrastructure available to companies and individuals to help them run the technical and logistical parts of their businesses (Introduction to Information Systems).
I believe that Amazon is moving beyond its core competency, which began as an online book retailer. Amazon has gone from selling books to also selling some electronics, such as E-Readers. With the addition of the services Amazon is now introducing, they are more able to compete with Microsoft and Google.
In adding services at reasonable prices Amazon has created and implemented a sound strategy that should help to keep them in the forefront of the global internet market.
The services Amazon has added so far include Simple Storage Service (S3), which allows businesses to store data and applications on Amazon disk drives, Amazon charges 15 cents per gigabyte per month. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a service in which Amazon rents out processing power starting at 10 cents per hour. Some businesses use both of these services together saving the companies both money and time. The third service Amazon has added is called Mechanical Turk, this service combines processing power with networks of people who are paid to recognize inappropriate content in images or transcribing audio. Companies post work to Mechanical Turk and pay for this service and Amazon gets a 10 percent commission (Intro to Information Systems).
Each of these new services has the same potential data management issues. Data management issues could include corrupted files infecting the entire