Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reveals future plans

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ANI Washington
Last Updated : Dec 02 2013 | 5:45 PM IST

Online book seller Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed his secret to success and future plans of expansion.

Bezos said that the company's new venture, called Amazon Web Services (AWS), might soon become its biggest business, CBS News reports.

The company's founder said that to keep track of its massive online orders, Amazon has built a large and sophisticated computing infrastructure, which could be expanded to store data and run websites for thousands of private companies and government agencies on the cloud.

In an interview with Charlie Rose, he further revealed that the company is building a private cloud for the CIA uses for its data, as they don't want to be on the public cloud.

Amazon has 96 warehouses worldwide, which it calls fulfillment centers, for complete the orders of its 225 million customers around the world

Conceived as an online book seller, Amazon has reinvented itself time and again and presently has an estimated worth of at least 25 billion dollars.

The company recently announced that it was launching Sunday delivery, the report added.

According to the report, the company is expected to receive more than 300 items a second on Amazon, on what is known as Cyber Monday.

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First Published: Dec 02 2013 | 1:21 PM IST

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