CASE STUDY

AS VAST AS THE AMAZON



  1. Amazon.com tries to take strategic advantage of its resources. of what physical resources does amazon.com take advantage?
  • amazon offers their own network web-based storage devices to business and for individuals. clients will pay only for the storage they use. and they can stored data as much as they want, and there is no minimum fee and no start up cost.
  2.   Does Amazon.com strategically leverage anything else in addition to physical assets?

  • Amazon.com clients pay 20 cents per gigabytes of data when it is transferred and 15 cents per GB per month of storage space used.clients help to avoid the cost and time in establishing their own network of storage devices.amazon offers its own storage network that is distributed around the globe and on which data elements are replicated, so that if one server is down another can still provide the data.
   3.  What are the benefits of S3 for small companies?

  • The benefits can take for small companies is that they can start a business with a small amount of money, like Smugmug, Smugmug is a small company that using S3 even it is a small company but they able to keep pace with big companies..
   4.  At its current rates for S3 services. Amazon.com does not make a great profit(or not at all) why, then do 
        you think amazon.com offers s3?

  • Amazon.com does not expect to make money on S3 in the near future. amazon.com offers S3 so that their clients can assure for their data storage is in safe. the use of S3 is to secure the all data storage and have a back up devices.