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Cost Fragmentation

Now what Amazon is doing with EC2 and S3 is to fragmentize the Costs part of Web business. Publishesr no longer need to deal with scalability - they pay exactly for what they use. In other words, resources are allocated more efficiently than ever - which was what happened with Google AdSense too, as the below diagram shows.

—Why Amazon’s HaaS (Hardware as a Service) Strategy is a Winner - ReadWriteWeb

AmazonはEC2とS3によって、Webビジネスに必要なコストを、非常に小さな単位に分解した。

もはやスケーラビリティについて、あれこれ考える必要は無くなった。

サーバを使った分だけ、払えばいいんだから。

言い換えれば、かつてないほど効率の良いリソース調達ということ。