[Waste=Food] Amazon Services

• February 15, 2008

What is the most amount of unused space in your business? Is it empty office space? Is it an employee or group of employees who are not working on something purposeful? Is it a great idea that is simply not being given due time and attention?

At Amazon, it was unused server and warehouse space. In March 2006, TechCrunch helped announce Amazon’s release of a web service called S3. S3 took unused space on Amazon’s dedicated servers (that they use to manage their web stores + data) and…