In the past couple of years, we've been hearing the term "cloud computing" a great deal. However, from my experience working with people across various industries, many are still unsure what exactly the term means.
Recently, Amazon entered the space with its own version of cloud computing. In this article, I'll show exactly what Amazon is up to.

Amazon isn't the most likely company to get into the cloud computing business. It would seem that would be left to vendors such as IBM and Oracle.

Here's how Amazon fell into this world. When a person visits the Amazon Web site and is logged in, he'll see a storefront that has been customized for him. These recommendations aren't somehow stored in cookies and figured out by the user's browser; they are determined on the fly completely by the Amazon servers.

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