1. What does the company do - what is its business?
The main purpose of the company "Sharethis" is the sharing for everyone. This company allows to consumers in one click to instantly post, tag and send the content via mail or text message (SMS). It is possible also to share data on a blog or on a social network as Facebook. It is easily to use Sharethis thanks to the toolbar in the Internet navigator. There is also 30 000 websites where the consumer can find the "Sharethis button". The company is constantly growing.
2. How it uses Amazon services?
Sharethis deployed its architecture on Amazon web services (AWS). Amazon is used for all services expect mail. Indeed, AWS is used for storage of shared objects or database dumps. It is possible also to publish report. However, the most important service used by Sharethis is Amazon SQS. It can be used for job control, synchronization and general impedence matching.
3. What benefits Amazon web services give to the company?
This architecture is tangible and Sharethis estimates a saving costs of $200 000. Moreover, there are a lot of cost saving as zero software costs, minimal staff costs, low barrier to development, responsiveness and reliability.
4. What disadvantages there are in Amazon web services to the company?
Just focus on customers instead of computers.
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