During 2006, Amazon Web Services started operations with 24 separate divisions. Today it has 654 operating units! Such breakthrough growth comes with bigger issues to deal, bigger problems to face. But Amazon had all the answers to grow beyond imagination. Today, Amazon is looking beyond running processor intensive applications in the cloud. The focus is now on the desktop.  In March it unveiled “AmazonWorkSpace”, a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. It had been running “WorkSpace” as a Beta version with some customers since November last year. It can run in such a way that an employee or a customer can log in and out of a system and use it exactly as if it was one of the company's own systems without realizing that it is running in the Amazon cloud. From an organization’s point of view, outsourcing of their day-to-day system uptime issues to a third party is going to be a big advantage.

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