2. Amazonâs Three Businesses Retail Business Tens of millions of active customer accounts Seven countries: US, UK, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, China Seller Business Sell on Amazon websites Use Amazon technology for your own retail website Leverage Amazonâs massive fulfillment center network Developers & IT Professionals On-demand infrastructure for hosting web-scale solutions Hundreds of thousands of registered customers
15. Heavy Lifting = Price of Admission Server hosting Bandwidth management Contract negotiation Purchase decisions Moving facilities Scaling and managing physical growth Heterogeneous hardware Legacy software Coordinating large teams
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18. Immediate Cost Savings In the first 12 months since launch, Zoopla estimates they have saved at least ÂŁ200,000 in the areas of data-centre costs, server cap-ex, server upgrade/maintenance costs, sys admin salaries, network equipment, etc .