2010 has been a busy year for AWS so I wanted to provide you a quick recap of some of the highlights as well as a summary of significant 2010 service and feature launches. Below are a few of the highlights and attached you’ll find a recap of significant 2010 announcements as well as summary of announcements since the launch of our first service in March of 2006. Let me know if you’d rather not receive this type of information. Today AWS has hundreds of thousands of customers in over 190 countries—both startups and large companies. To give you an idea of scale – AWS recently exceeded 200 billion objects in Amazon S3 and hit a peak of 199K requests per second. That’s up from 82 billion objects last year at this time. Companies such as Netflix, Adobe, NewsWeek and multiple federal agencies as well as fast growing start-ups such as Zynga and Playfish are leveraging AWS to save time and money, reduce time to market with new products and services and heighten their ability to focus on the things that differentiate their business. In 2010, we focused on geographic expansion, rapidly adding features that our enterprise customers have asked for and continuing in our commitment to pass cost efficiencies to our customers in the form of lower prices – in fact, we lowered prices four times this year (details in the attached). Government adoption of AWS grew significantly in 2010. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board became the first government-wide agency to migrate to a cloud-based environment when it moved Recovery.gov to AWS in March 2010. Today we have nearly 20 government agencies leveraging AWS, and the U.S. federal government continues to be one of our fastest growing customer segments. The U.S. General Services Administration awarded AWS the ability to provide government agencies with cloud services through the government’s cloud storefront, Apps.gov. Additional AWS customers include Treasury.gov, the Federal Register 2.0 at the National Archives, the openEI.org project at DoE's National Renewable Energy Lab, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program at USDA, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA. The current AWS compliance framework covers FISMA, PCI DSS Level 1, ISO 27001, SAS70 type II, and HIPAA, and we continue to seek certifications and accreditations that make it easier for government agencies to benefit from AWS. To learn more about how AWS works with the federal government, visit: http://aws.amazon.com/federal/. High performance computing (HPC) is an area that has traditionally been available only to organizations with the financial resources to fund expensive, purpose-built hardware. In 2010, AWS launched two new instance types engineered specifically to meet the unique compute and networking demands of HPC applications. Cluster Compute Instances and Cluster GPU Instances for Amazon EC2 allow organizations to achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of AWS. Cluster Compute Instances provide more CPU than any other Amazon EC2 instance and allow customers to group the instances into clusters so applications can get the low-latency network performance required for tightly coupled, node-to-node communication. In November, AWS added Cluster GPU Instances, which gives businesses immediate access to the highly tuned compute performance of GPUs with no upfront investment or long-term commitment. Mathworks, the Jet Propulsion Lab at NASA, mental images, Autodesk, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and the Fraunhofer Institute are among the organizations across the world running HPC applications on AWS. To learn more about HPC on AWS, visit: http://aws.amazon.com/hpc-applications/. The AWS partner ecosystem has grown quickly in 2010 which we believe is a key enabler for providing even more value to our customers. When ISVs and Professional Services firms leverage the AWS platform, we can jointly provide more value to the end customer in the form of faster delivery and lower overall costs. Today, AWS has hundreds of systems integrators who have built practices around AWS. From the larger systems integrators like Accenture, CapGemini and Deloitte to fast growing professional service companies like Rightscale and Freedom OSS have built cloud practices around AWS. We also continue to work with the largest ISV’s to enable their software on the AWS platform because the cloud is where their customers want to go. This includes the largest ISV’s like Oracle, Redhat, IBM, SAP, SalesForce, Lawson, SAGE, Novell, to new ISV’s who build products specifically for cloud computing deployments. I’ll keep this short but let me know if you have questions. We’re looking forward to an exciting and busy 2011. I hope this email finds you well and enjoying your holidays. Thank you. Kay Kinton Senior Public Relations Manager Amazon Web Services