2. Introduction to How Amazon Works
Amazon.com is the most famous site and, at
times, controversial: The company owns dozens
of planet son e-commerce processes that some
argue should remain in the public domain.
3. AmazonTechnologyy
The data warehouse is roughly divided into three
functions: query, historical data and The query
servers contain of raw data in 2005 Amazon's
technology architecture handles millions of back-end
operations every day as well as queries from more
than half a million third-party sellers. According to a
report released by Oracle after it helped migrate
Amazon's data warehouse to Linux is the central
task process looks something like this:
4. Amazon E-commerce
Amazon.com to sell their products in addition to selling them
through their own Web sites. The sales go through Amazon.
com and end up at Nordstrom.com, Land's End.com or Target.
com for processing and order fulfillment. Amazon essentially
leases space to these retailers, who use Amazon.com as a
supplemental outlet for their online sales.
5. Amazon Tools, Marketing and Community
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.
6. Lots More Information
When inventors come up with a new device,
the first thing they want to do is patent it.
Patents are a government's way of giving an
inventor ownership of his or her creation. For
a certain period of time, patent-holders are
allowed to control how their inventions are
used, allowing them to reap the financial
rewards of their work.