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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Further computationally intensive, highly parallel workloads have found their way to Amazon EC2 as businesses have explored using HPC types of algorithms for other application categories, for example to to process very large unstructured data sets for Business Intelligence applications. CTO - Amazon.com. Contact Info.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

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