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Essay On Business Model For Amazon

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BUSINESS MODEL FOR AMAZON:

Amazon has existed in the ecommerce technology world since their inception. They think like a technology company and agile innovators, only innovative in everything they do, not just technology. They are not afraid to try new things and they can get things done quickly, thanks to the culture their CEO Bezos has instilled. (For more, see our article on Amazon and its business strategy.)
Bezos’ vision
For years, I’ve been fascinated by Jeff Bezos’ vision. We write a lot about him and Amazon. They are a great company to follow because of the Bezos vision. And his ability to make good bets on his vision. While everything may seem rosy at Amazon these days, for years, it was amazing to see just how much criticism there…show more content…
Here are several that they use and also source to other businesses:
Cloud computing
Unless you work in technology or corporate logistics, you might not have known that Amazon was ahead of Google in the cloud business. Most consumers will have encountered the cloud in the form of services where Google is strong—email (Gmail), document storage (Google Drive), and the like. But Amazon Web Services has for years been the front-runner in the business of renting computer power to companies.
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To understand the scale of the war brewing between them, it helps to understand that what Amazon and Google are really contesting is who gets to eat a bigger portion of the total corporate information-technology pie. All the warehouses of servers that run the whole of the internet, all the software used by companies the world over, and all the other IT services companies hire others to provide, or which they provide internally, will be worth some $1.4 trillion in 2014, according to Gartner Research—some six times Google and Amazon’s combined annual revenue last year. Not surprisingly, both companies have said at one point or another that this new revenue stream has the potential to be larger than all their current sources of
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