Amazon's Cloud Data Center To Follow Google To Oregon 84
1sockchuck writes "All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud. It resides in servers and data centers. That's why Amazon.com is quietly building a large data center complex in Oregon along the Columbia River, not far from Google's secret data lair in The Dalles. Amazon Web Services started as a way to monetize excess data center capacity for its retail operation, but has grown to the point where it requires dedicated infrastructure. Amazon recently said that its S3 cloud storage service is hosting 29 billion objects."
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud.
What? Now he tells me.
Re:Huh? (Score:1, Funny)
All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud.
What? Now he tells me.
What next? No Heaven? No Easter Bunny? No Three Musketeers bars?
Re:Google's Secret Lair (Score:3, Funny)
It's true about Google's secret lair.
Growing up in Oregon, there were often strange disappearances around The Dalles. Local folk stories talked about vans of mysterious Google workers kidnapping transients and performing experiments on them for upcoming products.
Yes, I've been hearing about the new Google Implant. I don't think I'll be an early adopter on this one though.
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
Damn - now I've got Little Fluffy Clouds [youtube.com] buzzing round my tiny brain.
Haven't listened to that track in years.
Still, at least I'll go to sleep in a good frame of mind...
Re:Oblig (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
To Oregon? (Score:5, Funny)
Amazon's Cloud Data Center to Follow Google to Oregon
Amazon has died of dysentery.