Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine
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How #Amazon Powers the Internet
It began as a way for Amazon’s engineers to work together efficiently. Now Amazon Web Services hosts some of the most popular sites on the web and is responsible for a significant amount of the world’s online traffic. Here’s a look at some of the companies that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing platform.
Foursquare 3 million check-ins a day
Harvard Medical School Vast database for developing genome-analysis models
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Processing of hi-res satellite images to help guide its robots
Netflix Video streaming service that accounts for 25% of US Internet traffic
Newsweek/The Daily Beast 1 million pageviews every hour
PBS More than 1 petabyte of streaming video a month
SmugMug Storage for 70 million photos
US Department of Agriculture Geographic information system for food-stamp recipients
Virgin Atlantic Crowdsourced travel review service
Yelp Data storage for its 22 million-plus reviews
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