Amazon cloud is used by…corporations?

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Chris DeBrusk

Techcrunch did a little digging into the Amazon earnings call and has come to the conclusion that a large percentage of the computing power being deployed by Amazon web services is being used by large corporations, not startups.

While I didn’t validate this analysis, I’m willing to take it at face value. That being said, it is really surprising. The banks I’ve consulted for over the last decade or so would rather cut off their left arm than expose their data externally. So this situation has me really curious…what exactly are they doing on the Amazon web services platform and how did they get permission from IT Security, IT Risk, Compliance, and Legal to do it? (Seriously, that is what would be required.)

I’m looking forward to more information becoming public on the types of analysis that is being performed. Call me puzzled.

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