Amazon Paper

Running head: THE EVER EVOLVING AMAZON

The Ever Evolving Amazon

Elena Vasquez

University of Phoenix

Business Information Systems

May 18, 2009

The Ever Evolving Amazon

Amazon has constantly been trying to stay as an innovator in the web based all in one. With the way consumers are always wanting, Amazon must continue to evolve and grow the services they already offer. Amazon is not the only company in the business; they are constantly trying to compete with Google and Microsoft. With Amazon’s new database, they are allowing consumers to pay to store their own data to their servers. This brings up issues for Amazon to consider, meaning how to keep the data, and the user friendliness. Amazon has combined e-business and e-commerce for B2B and B2C into one easy to access web site. Amazon is a company moving away from online retail, to compete with Google and Microsoft with a service called Simple DB, which provides online data storage.

Amazon (www.amazon.com) has a very large retailer business. The e-commerce sale books, movies, music, software, electronics, groceries, and power tools just to mention a few. The incorporation is in different countries as well. They are always looking at ways to offer new products that consumers need. Amazon has invented a new kind of PDA called kindle that will allow anyone to view newspapers, magazines, and books in any langue. Most of these books or magazines cost around 9.99 and can download directly to the kindle via wireless communication (3G). Amazon has developed new services to create more revenue. One of those services provides that anyone can sell his or her used and new books, videos on the Amazon web site. In addition, this ecommerce offers web services. Simple storage service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Simple DB just to mention a few, that are discuss later in our paper.

According to Amazons, first quarter financial results the incorporation net sells increased 18% to $4.89...