![Amazon Technology
• The massive technology core that keeps
Amazon running is entirely Linux-based.
• As of 2005, Amazon has the world's three
largest Linux databases, with a total capacity of
7.8 terabytes (TB), 18.5 TB and 24.7 TB
respectively [ref].
• The central Amazon data warehouse is made up
of 28 Hewlett Packard servers, with four CPUs
per node, running Oracle 9i database software.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/amazon-100110054825-phpapp02/85/Amazonda-3-320.jpg)
Amazonda
- 1. In 1995, Amazon.com sold its first book, which shipped from Jeff Bezos' garage in Seattle. The company owns dozens of patents on e- commerce processes that some argue should remain in the public domain. In this article, we'll find out what Amazon does, what makes it different from other e-commerce Web sites and how its technology infrastructure supports its multi-pronged approach to online sales.
- 2. Amazon.com Basics • Amazon.com sells lots and lots of stuff. • The direct Amazon-to-buyer sales approach is really no different from what happens at most other large, online retailers except for its range of products. • You can find beauty supplies, clothing, jewelry, gourmet food, sporting goods, pet supplies, books, CDs, DVDs, computers, furniture, toys, garden supplies, bedding and almost anything else you might want to buy.
- 3. Amazon Technology • The massive technology core that keeps Amazon running is entirely Linux-based. • As of 2005, Amazon has the world's three largest Linux databases, with a total capacity of 7.8 terabytes (TB), 18.5 TB and 24.7 TB respectively [ref]. • The central Amazon data warehouse is made up of 28 Hewlett Packard servers, with four CPUs per node, running Oracle 9i database software.
- 4. • The data warehouse is roughly divided into three functions: • query, historical data and ETL (extract, transform, and load -- a primary database function that pulls data from one source and integrates it into another). • The query servers (24.7 TB capacity) contain 15 TB of raw data in 2005; • the click history servers (18.5 TB capacity) hold 14 TB of raw data; • and the ETL cluster (7.8 TB capacity) contains 5 TB of raw data.
- 5. Amazon E-commerce • Amazon.com has always sold goods out of its own warehouses. It started as a bookseller, pure and simple, and over the last decade has branched out into additional product areas and the third- party sales that now represent a good chunk of its revenue (some estimates put it at 25 percent).
- 6. Amazon Tools, Marketing and Community • The goal is pretty straightforward: "To be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online." The implementation is complex, massive and dynamic. Amazon's marketing structure is a lesson in cost- efficiency and brilliant self-promotion. Amazon's associates link to Amazon products in order to add value to their own Web sites, sending people to Amazon to make their purchases. It costs Amazon practically nothing. Some associates create mini-Amazons -- satellite sites that do new things with Amazon data and send people to the mothership when they're ready to buy. Amazon Light, built and maintained by software developer Alan Taylor, is one of those satellite sites.