Amazon Web Services cuts S3 prices, knocks old guard rivals | ZDNet

An AWS momentum snapshot; also see Amazon-Google cloud price war heats up (CNet)

"Among the key stats:

• AWS has hundreds of thousands of customers in 190 countries;
• 300 government agencies and 1,500 educational institutions;
• Jassy also touted AWS' ecosystem of integrators to software vendors to marketplace partners; 
• There are 1.3 trillion total objects on S3;
• AWS runs more than 835,000 requests per second; 
• Has 3.7 million clusters; 
• In 2012, AWS will launch 158 new services and features, up from 81 in 2011.
• And AWS in 2012 now adds enough server capacity to power a $5 billion global enterprise daily."

Amazon Web Services cuts S3 prices, knocks old guard rivals | ZDNet