- Cloud computing platforms like Amazon Web Services allow companies to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure maintenance by providing scalable, pay-as-you-go cloud services.
- Amazon's cloud services like EC2, S3, and SQS were used to build GrepTheWeb, a distributed text search service that can quickly search very large datasets by distributing work across elastic compute resources.
- GrepTheWeb coordinates distributed processing using SQS, stores input files in S3, runs jobs on EC2 instances, and stores results in SimpleDB to provide fast, scalable text searches without having to manage physical infrastructure.