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Amazon

Amazon contributed to Recommendation Algorithms and Personalised Feeds, Cloud computing and cloud storage. Amazon’s item-to-item collaborative filtering computed relationships among products so recommendations could be served efficiently even with very large customer bases and catalogues.

Type
company or platform
Known for
Recommendation Algorithms and Personalised Feeds, Cloud computing and cloud storage
Historical role

What the organisation contributed

Amazon’s item-to-item collaborative filtering computed relationships among products so recommendations could be served efficiently even with very large customer bases and catalogues. Amazon S3 and EC2 in 2006 became influential commercial examples of storage and compute exposed through service interfaces.

Why it mattered

Selects and orders a manageable recipient-specific subset when available information exceeds manual attention. Reduces dependence on fixed local capacity, long procurement cycles and direct operation of every computing and storage component.

Connected topics

Where this fits in ITEM

Recommendation Algorithms and Personalised FeedsCloud computing and cloud storage
Evidence

Sources and further reading

  1. Brent Smith and Jeremy York, Amazon.com Recommendations: Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering, IEEE Internet Computing, 2003

    Greg Linden · 2003

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  2. Eight Years (And Counting) of Cloud Computing,

    AWS · 2014

    Open source ↗

  3. Our Origins

    AWS

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