Amazon's AWS Won't Compete With CDNs (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Dan Rayburn posted on: July 20, 2008 | about stocks: Over the past few months, there has been a lot of speculation on what Amazon might be working on in regards to its EC2 and S3 service and whether or not its AWS offering is going to compete with content delivery networks. Adding to the confusion was the fact that Jeff Bezos made a brief announcement of a new upcoming streaming service but was scant on details. Amazon's new video on demand content offering went into beta last week. The new offering is not a streaming service that has anything to do with AWS and is simply a new content offering that enhances the functionality of Amazon's legacy Unbox service. The Amazon Web Services group is not supporting the new streaming content offering and the content is being delivered by Limelight Networks . That being said,... [read full story]                    

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