Summary of the Article review Many great inventions have taken place throughout history. There came the steam engine, electric motor, television set, the World Wide Web, and now, mass online storage facilities. Perhaps some few individuals were skeptical when Amazon.Com committed 2 billion dollars over a decade ago for purposes of extensive research aimed at fine-tuning its information technology infrastructure. But the results of that worthwhile investment have been written in the books of history due to the way it has continued to transform the world. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Computer Cloud (ECZ) have completely revolutionized the online storage and cloud utility computing market. These virtual products have found many admirers due to the fast, easy, and inexpensive opportunities that they have provided to budding and established enterprises. Their reliability, availability, and flexible pay-as-you-go user policy have only made their integration in mainstream society to be unparalleled. Although this online storage and computing tools have been hit by minor technical hitches here and there, they have been able to penetrate the market with a thundering boom (Laudon & Laudon, 2007). An expanded description of the article Many organizations have been grappling with the problem of dealing with the large volumes of data that they handle each day. Some startup companies lack the resources needed to buy the software and hardware tools to store and backup huge volumes of data. But in utilizing their huge computing capacity, Amazon.Com, the leading web services provider and online retailer have effectively filled the void exhibited by companies that are always in need of enhanced storage capacities. This has been attainable through Amazon’s development and commissioning of S3 and ECZ storage and computing services, effectively enabling clients to purchase their requirements for such services on a per-usage basis. Companies that have already tested the services are full of praise as they have been able to downsize their personnel requirements while at the same time cut on operational costs. Some companies already utilizing these solutions have been able to save up to 75 percent of their initial data backup costs. A good example of such a company is Webmail.US, headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia. Others like Smugmug Inc. have been able to save up to $1 million in their first year of conducting business due to relying on Amazon’s storage facilities. What is more enticing is that the services are inexpensive, user-friendly, and are backed up by 24-hour service phone support to take care of emergencies (Laudon & Laudon, 2007). Why my company will stand to gain tremendously from the S3 IT infrastructure developed by Amazons.Com It is undeniable that the S3 online storage facility will have a major positive impact on the online music store my partner and I have started. We intend to grow our music and video catalogue to international standards but we are often faced with the challenge of soliciting funds to buy more servers, hand disk drives, and software. The office space that we are currently occupying is barely enough for all the computers and e