Amazon is new player in cloud computing.

• Position: CLOUD COMPUTING

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E-commerce giant Amazon has become a new player in the cloud computing market, thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). According to an article on LosAngelesTimes.com, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to capture and store images and metadata collected by the Mars Exploration Rover.

According to a case study AWS released on the project, NASA's JPL did not have the web and live-streaming infrastructure needed to push such large amounts of data prior to implementing AWS.

With AWS, "[t]he public gets access as soon as we have cacess," Khawaja Shams, manager of data...