Changes

* The company decided to make all the ''public domain articles'' from 1851[[Image:NYtimes-1922 available free of chargecloud. * These articles are all in the form of images scanned from the original paper, all 11 million articles are available as images in PDF format.* It had been using Amazon S3 service and in late 2006 it begun playing with Amazon EC2.* The idea was to upload 4TB of source data into S3, write some code that would run on numerous EC2 instances to read the source data, create PDFs, and store the results back into S3.* S3 is used to serve the PDFs to the general public.:jpg|thumb|center|600px|[http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorated-super-computing-fun/ Source: ope.blogs.nytimes]]] 

* [Image:MLB has baseball covered from pitch-by-pitch accounts of games to streaming audio and video plus news, schedules, statistics and morecloud.* The company needs additional capacity (memory and processors) when the ''playoffs'' and ''world series'' came around so that fans could chat about the playoff races and use it during the playoffs.* It is using Joyent service that provides hosting using virtual zones and virtual storage.* Soon after the world series is over MLB gets its capacity scaled down and pay for the utilization.:jpg|thumb|center|600px|[http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/121007-your-take-mlb.html Source: networkworld]]

* For ''Perfect10 Bracket Challenge'' contest, ESPN needed to scale up its application while keeping the operational costs managable.* ESPN launched the contest using Amazon's EC2 [image:espn-cloud infrastructure.* OpenCrowd designed and developed the scalable solution for the contest.* This helped ESPN to reduce their technology costs while increasing flexibility in their business.:|thumb|center|600px|[http://www.opencrowd.com/assets/pdf/opencrowd-ec2.pdf Source: opencrowd]]

* Hasbro, the mega producer of games and toys, introduced an ''online marketing campaign''.* The campaign web site allowed game-lovers worldwide to vote for their city to be included in the game’s new edition.* Hasbro approached Digitaria for this, who used AWS and open source software to produce the site’s back-end infrastructure from a single Amazon EC2 [image.* With this, they created and launched a new database, application server, caching server, and load balancer instances in much less time.:hasbro-cloud|thumb|center|600px|[http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/digitaria/ Source: aws.amazon.com]]

* West Monroe Partners has created and launched an innovative, interactive map to support the City of Chicago's ''annual Taste of Chicago'' event.* West Monroe Partners utilized Microsoft Silverlight and its Deep Zoom technology to deliver rich interactive applications for the Web.* Microsoft [image:chicago-cloud platform Windows Azure is used to host the application.* Azure is also used to handle website's users load which provides equivalent capacity of 25 purchased servers, with no infrastructure investment required by the City of Chicago.:|thumb|center|600px|[http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-16-2009/0005045062&EDATE= Source: news.prnewswire]]

* In an initiative to reduce cost/time and improve productivity of its payroll system, CSS labs shifted its payroll system on EC2.* Earlier CSS ''payroll system'' took about 5 to 10 seconds to calculate a pay check per employee and approximately 6 hours for 4500 employees.* Now running payroll on AWS, processing time has been reduced considerably from 5 hours to approximately 1 hour.* Payroll solution is now scalable as well to withstand increasing head count day by day.[image:css-cloud|thumb|center|600px|[http://cssinnovations.blogspot.com/2008/07/yet-another-ec2-experience-cybernet.html Source: cssinnovations.blogspot]]

* Intuit was keen on ensuring the TurboTax online site was able to support high continuous use, as well as surges in user traffic as tax day neared.* Intuit contacted SOASTA for the same and they used Amzon EC2 [image:intuit-cloud service.* As a result TurboTax online site performed perfectly on tax day.:|thumb|center|600px|[http://www.soasta.com/successstories/index.html Source: soasta.com]]

* Activision prepared to launch the newest edition of its biggest selling game ''Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'' Just before the holiday season.* As the shopping season was approaching, the company had less time and lacked resources who could test the web site.* Activision used SOASTA CloudTest automated testing solution which runs on Amazon EC2.* Activision was able to implement the required changes in time to meet their marketing kickoff as a result the game ''Guita Hero III'' was named the best selling video game in a single calendar year.[image:activision-cloud|thumb|center|600px|[http://www.soasta.com/successstories/index.html Source: soasta.com]]