Amazon Virtualization
Virtualization Benchmark
Amazon sold storage to external customers for 15 cents/GB/month (estimated).
Bechtel’s internal storage costs were $3.75/GB/month.
WHAT BECHTEL LEARNED: Amazon could sell storage cheaply, Ramleth believes, because its servers were more highly utilized.
Source: CIO Magazine, Bechtel’s New Benchmarks, October 24, 2008.
