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Online auctions are the major as Amaroe's hoiday shoppers bought gits using a mobile device. pect of online sales in which Amaaon dees not participote It tried This contrbuted to a 20 percent incresase in Amazon's tokal an- mactions in 1999, but it could never make inroads against elBay " Today. it's hard to remember how much of what we take nual sales of S89R Amaxon's last order foe the holiday season was placed on December 24 at 10:24 PM and was delivered at for granted was pionsered by Amazon. "Customers who bought You may think of Amazun as simply an online retailer, ranking of customer reviews books liss: Look lnside the Book and that is indeed where the company bas achieved most of automatic free shipping for certain orders or frequent custom Rs success. To do this. Amazon had to build an enormous sup- ers: and Kindle books and devices were all novel concepts when imagine the information systems Amazon introduced them (Figure 3-16) and fulilment facilithes needed lo ship 36 8 million items on a single day. That Infrastructure. however, is needed only during Products are usually sold at a discount from the stated retail the busy holday season. Most of the year Amazon is lelt with price, and 2 day shipping is free for Amazon Prime members excess infrastructure capacity Starting in 2000. Amazon began (who pay an annual fee of $99). How does it do li to lease some of that capacity to other companies. In the pro- Amazon drives its employees incredibly hard. Former cess a played a key rule in the creation of what are termed eloud claim the hours are long, the servizes, which you wll learn about in Chapter 6. For now just think of cloud services as l For one. employees pressure is severe, and the work load is heavy. But what else? It comes down to Moore's Law and processing, storage, and computer resources sunewhere out in the innovative use of nearly free data Internet thal are leased on flexible terms Today. Amazon's business lines can be grouped into three In addition to online retailing. Amazon also sells order fulillment services. You can ship your inventory to an Amazon warehouse and access Amazon's information systems just as if they were yours. Using technology known as Web services, your order processing information systems can directly Integrate over the Web, with Amazon's inventory, fuillment, and ship- ping applications. Your customers need not know that Amazon played any role at all. You can also sell that same inventory us- major categuries . Order fulfilment Amazon created the business model for online retailing. It ing Amazon's retail sales applications. began as an online bookstore, but every year since 1998 it has added new product categoiries. The company is involeed in all time on computer equipment n very n Amazon Weh Services (AWS) allow organizations to lease e on computer equipment in very flexible ways. Amazon