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		perlgeek on Nov 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Announces new Data Warehousing Product > The bigger question for me is why Amazon has been able to figure out the technical details necessary to run this kind of service for this price. I guess they grew the infrastructure for themselves, optimizing it bit by bit over the years. And then noticed that it could be sold too.

justincormack on Nov 28, 2012 | [–]

They seem to have taken their own business requirements for amazon.com and reimplemented them on commodity hardware.

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